Sea turtle nesting season has arrived in the Panhandle with the first local sighting of the sea turtle nest recorded in Perdido Key, fittingly, on Mother's Day. Turtle nesting season typically occurs ...

Mote Marine Laboratory's Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program (STCRP) documented the first local turtle activity of the 2025 season on Saturday, April 26. The STCRP team reported one ...

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina’s first sea turtle nest in 2025 has officially been spotted on Folly Beach. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources confirmed the nest was found by ...

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCIV) — As turtle nesting season progresses, Folly Beach is experiencing a slower start than anticipated. Dave Miller of the Folly Beach Turtle Watch reported that the first nest of ...

Hatchlings emerge from a nest recently at Harbor Island. Sea turtles have adapted nesting strategies such having 3-5 nests in a season and 120 eggs per nest to ensure that no one storm season is a ...

Sea turtles defied the odds this nesting season. Despite threats from beach erosion and hurricanes, it was one of the strongest sea-turtle nesting seasons ever recorded on a 9.5-mile stretch of beach ...

Florida’s beaches – particularly those in Palm Beach County – are among the world’s most vital nesting grounds for loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta), accounting for 90% of all loggerhead nests ...

Witnessed a rare event at Karon Beach: a green sea turtle nesting. Discover the importance of marine conservation in Thailand.

Scientists studying the world’s largest river turtles, a South American species that grows to a length of nearly a meter, or 3 feet, have found the largest nesting aggregation ever recorded. Using ...

With temperatures rising and tourists returning, one of South Carolina’s favorite reptiles will soon have all four flippers in the sand. One dedicated sea turtle mama got a head start, laying the ...

Loggerhead Marinelife Center logged 20,872 nests, a nearly 40% increase from the previous year. Despite the high numbers, some nests were lost to beach erosion. Researchers advise beachgoers to keep ...