The Padre Island National Seashore (PINS) Sea Turtle Science and Recovery Program will merge with the Science and Resources Management Division. Many residents and turtle lovers are outraged about ...

Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program documented the first local turtle activity of the 2025 season on Saturday, April 26. The Sea Turtle Patrol reported ...

Editor’s Note: Park Superintendent Eric Brunnemann has not responded to any Caller-Times requests for comment. Dr. Donna Shaver has spent a 40-year career creating a program to halt the extinction of ...

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCIV) — Sea Turtle hatchling season is here and volunteers with the Folly Beach Turtle Watch Program were able to track two separate nests hatch and a female loggerhead turtle lay a ...

For decades, the public releases of baby Kemp’s ridley turtles at the Padre Island National Seashore have been one of the most popular summer rituals of the Texas Gulf Coast. The feel-good sendoffs on ...

OKALOOSA ISLAND — As surfers rode Gulf of Mexico waves and beachgoers strolled on the shore of white sand, 15 people absorbed numerous lessons on sea turtles late Wednesday afternoon at the Gulfarium ...

Jacksonville University is partnering with a St. Johns County sea turtle patrol to expand its marine science work to include hands-on research documenting some of Florida’s signature protected species ...

The chief of the Division of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery was given a five-day suspension without pay for allegedly raising her voice at a coworker. People familiar with the sea turtle program at ...

For turtles that grow up in the sea, or in our ponds and swamps, early childhood is often when they're the most vulnerable. They're small, inexperienced, and at the mercy of cars and animal predators.

Sea turtle nesting season is here. There are approximately 330 miles of ocean-facing sandy beaches in North Carolina that provide suitable nesting habitat for sea turtles, and the turtles have been ...