so authorities allow local residents to gather some turtle eggs for their own use and domestic sale. The harvest and sales are regulated. At 7 a.m. Monday, Pheasey watched on smartphone apps as ...

The Clearwater Marine Aquarium said Friday that 271 nests were documented this year along a 21-mile stretch of beach ...

Starting last year, a handful of volunteers and scientists began a yearly ritual of collecting turtle eggs on Petrie Island, a conservation area off the shore of Orléans, a suburban ...

Beach erosion wasn’t major in Brevard County, but some are still spotting some washed-out turtle eggs. Joel Cohen with the Sea Turtle Preservation Society showed News 6 reporter James Sparvero ...

Kemp’s ridleys are the smallest and most endangered sea turtles in the world. Researchers estimate that in the 1940s, about 50,000 females laid eggs in more than 120,000 nests along the Gulf of Mexico ...

Most people only see them when the females leave the water in early summer to locate nesting sites where they lay between 20 and 80 ping pong ball-shaped eggs. Unfortunately ... of Health forbids the ...

“We were alerted by a member of the public who spotted a nesting turtle, and we went down and found the nest. We put a mesh over the eggs to ensure that natural predators like monitor lizards ...

Extraordinary hatching of Caretta caretta sea turtles on the “Le Celestine ... the areas surrounding the beach of Le Celestine, the eggs would have been laid in the summer season just passed ...

Once mature, male turtles never leave the sea, but females come ashore to lay eggs – typically on the same sandy beach where they themselves hatched. They might not look like voracious killers, but ...

The method, previously only used in bird research, uses microscopic techniques originally developed for bird eggs to assess whether turtle and tortoise eggs have been fertilized and if embryos ...

Researchers this year also documented 28 "crawls" — parallel lines in the sand from shoreline to nest — that mark the path of female turtles to interior nest sites where they lay their eggs.