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 ...

No sea turtle had ever been documented nesting on the U.S. West Coast. Then, within three days, two olive ridleys crawled ...

Through satellite mapping software, the movements of 20 turtles tagged in Iran, Oman, United Arab Emirates and Qatar have already been recorded and initial findings have uncovered interesting results.

LOMA LINDA, Calif., May 14, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- A new study published by researchers at Loma Linda University School of Medicine discovered that hawksbill turtles from as far away as Panama and ...

A new study provides groundbreaking findings that offer insights on the migration and foraging patterns of leatherback sea turtles along the Northwest Atlantic shelf. A new study led by a team of ...

An Olive Ridley turtle, tagged as "03233," has traveled 3,500km from Odisha to Guhagar beach in Maharashtra. This journey has changed what researchers thought they knew about turtle migration. It ...

It also means that the turtles are more vulnerable to being caught unintentionally by fishing gear in coastal and offshore areas. The eastern Pacific population had a different migration pattern, ...

Every several years, small groups of hatchling North Pacific loggerhead turtles, an endangered species, embark on years-long journeys spanning thousands of miles from Japan to the West Coast of North ...

Dr. James Spotila, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a story on WHYY-FM/Newsworks.org about a new study he coordinated to develop a map of migration patterns of critically ...

NOW, SCIENTISTS AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY ARE WORKING TO FIND OUT WHY. LET’S CHECK IN WITH OUR METEOROLOGIST HEATHER WALDMAN. SHE’S HERE WITH US LIVE. SO, HEATHER, SCIENTISTS HAVE SOME IDEA OF WHAT’S ...