After they emerge from their nests, baby sea turtles crawl towards the ocean and basically disappear for the next year or so as they drift thousands of kilometers with ocean currents. Eventually ...

Newly hatched sea turtles ‘swim’ their way out of buried nests into the world 1. When green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) emerge from the egg, they are buried in sand up to a metre deep. The first ...

Poaching is less of a threat to the survival of sea turtles than it once was, a new analysis suggests 1. Illegal sea-turtle catch has dropped sharply since 2000, with most of the current exploitation ...