JUNO BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Sea turtle nesting season is officially underway, which means thousands of turtles will come to our local beaches to lay their eggs from now through October. And the hot ...

Sea turtle nests hit record highs in Florida this year, tripling last year's numbers. Most new turtles are girls, because a turtle's sex depends on the temperature they sit in as an egg. This is ...

Male sea turtles are disappearing from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. A new study of gender ratios found that 99 percent of immature green turtles born in the northern part of the reef are female.

Few species have their sex determined by temperatures, but for sea turtles it's almost a certainty. However, this natural occurrence could become a biological disadvantage as global temperatures ...

ISTANBUL, 24 May (BelTA - Anadolu) - As the rapidly warming planet affects all life on earth, rising nest temperatures are increasing the female sea turtle population, according to a Turkish expert.

"All over the world, the sea turtle gender balance is being thrown way out of whack," said Lucy Hawkes, the English ecologist who led the study on Boa Vista. Tourists won't see the effects immediately ...

“One male in 5 (females) doesn’t sound too bad,” Wyneken said. “One male in 100 sounds awful — that would be a pretty tired boy.” Figuring out a sea turtle’s gender is not as easy as just flipping the ...

In the fascinating underwater world, gender is far from fixed. Many aquatic animals can change their sex, a unique biological process known as sequential hermaphroditism. This natural adaptation ...