Turtles with shell-cracking jaws were far more likely to survive extinction due to their ability to be sustained on a restricted diet.

Turtles that crushed hard-shelled prey like clams and snails were reported to be more than five times more likely to survive ...

By studying the chemical fingerprints inside each layer, scientists have been able to learn about the turtles’ lives and the ...

Learn how researchers use archaeological techniques to show how sea turtle shells grow in layers that capture chemical clues ...

Every year, hundreds of loggerheads, Kemp’s ridleys, greens, and other sea turtle species wash ashore on Massachusetts beaches, mostly along the coast of Cape Cod Bay. Stranding season peaks in late ...

Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice ...

As global temperatures continue to rise due to the impacts of human-caused climate change, sea turtles are changing their nesting behaviors in response. Green and loggerhead turtles in Cyprus, the ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - As 2020 comes to a close, researchers at the University of Georgia have started analyzing this year’s sea turtle nesting season along the Grand Strand. The city of Myrtle ...

New research shows that turtles are responding to climate change by nesting earlier. Researchers monitoring nesting green and loggerhead turtles in Cyprus have discovered they are returning to their ...

A single egg now helps scientists study hidden male sea turtles and understand their role in survival and long term ...

Early this morning, the unmistakable churned-up sand of a loggerhead sea turtle crawl stretched 114.4 feet from the mean high tide line to a nest in the backyard of a house at Connecticut Street on ...