Sharp-eyed whale watchers were treated to a rare olive ridley sea turtle sighting off the coast of Monterey Bay on Saturday.

Officials documented 697 Kemp’s ridley nests along the Texas coast in 2026, an encouraging gain after decades of conservation ...

Kemp’s ridley sea turtles are the smallest sea turtle in the world. The species is named after Richard M. Kemp, a fisherman from Key West, Florida, who first submitted the species for identification ...

A rare sea turtle was spotted on San Buenaventura State Beach in Ventura. Here's what happened next.

An international team of scientists from the U.S., France, Australia, and Germany, including Senckenberg researcher Uwe Fritz has published the ninth edition of the atlas "Turtles of the World." The ...

Several times a day, caretakers at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach check in to see if sand covering the 204 olive ...

Green turtles are officially out of danger, according to the latest update to the IUCN Red List, the definitive authority on the conservation status of the world's species. Global populations of this ...

Video shows the first-ever natural nesting on record of a sea turtle on the U.S. West Coast, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Three days later, a sea turtle was seen ...

The Sedgwick County Zoo shared that the hatching of the McCord's box turtle is "an important milestone for conservation" Getty Images/Westend61 A zoo in Kansas has welcomed the arrival of a rare ...

This turtle breathes through a snout that looks like a pig's, and that same oddity has made it a prized meal and a smuggler's ...