Nathan Pettigrew, an avid wildlife photographer and naturalist, shared the images with the Department of Conservation (DoC) to help build understanding of the distribution and behaviour of the turtles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sea turtles return to the same nesting sites year after year to grow their populations, but rising global temperatures have ...

Turtle conservationists in Ontario, Canada, are working overtime this nesting season to shield turtle hatchlings from the impact of hotter temperatures and habitat loss, among other environmental ...

A Tauranga local has captured stunning close-up images of five rare leatherback turtles in the waters close to Mount Maunganui this week.Nathan ...

Ask any herpetologist, Are Turtles Social Animals?, and you’ll get a pretty straightforward No answer from nearly all of them. These ancient reptiles have been around for more than 200 million years, ...

From the 1800s through the 1950s, people clamored for the delicacy green turtle soup. Though the color describes the hue of the soup, one turtle commonly used for the dish – the Chelonia mydas – has ...

Understanding the romantic life of Manning River turtles led to the first successful breeding of the reptiles in captivity and a release of the next generation into the wild Barrington River.

Warmer oceans and depleting food have affected the ubiquitous loggerhead turtle’s reproductive and migratory patterns — and even its size.

A new scientific study has found that large-scale beach nourishment was associated with significant changes in sea turtle nesting behavior.