CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Several agencies are coming together to fill a gap in efforts to help sea turtles year-round. Nueces County Coastal Parks is working to built a possible incubation facility ...
It’s breeding season for turtles, which means our reptilian friends are on the move … very, very slowly. A turtle's search for food, a good nesting spot and breeding opportunities may lead them out of ...
HERE is a cool fact about sea turtles: the incubation temperature of their eggs determines their offspring’s gender. “So, if turtle eggs buried in Penang beaches are allowed to incubate naturally, ...
Artificial incubation has led to the first successful hatching of Aldabra Giant Tortoises in the Seychelles, following groundbreaking research that revealed their low hatching success in the wild was ...
Each March, sea turtle nesting season begins with the females’ slow yet determined scooch onto Florida’s shores, shoveling away sand with her speckled fins, digging a hole to lay eggs. The season ...
Some like it hot While warming temperatures will produce more female than male sea turtle hatchings, sea turtle populations will not crash — at least for the next few decades, a new study suggests. In ...
Nickel, a green sea turtle rescued near Goodland, Fla., swims the waters of the Shedd Aquarium’s Caribbean Reef exhibit in 2003. (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune/TNS) MIAMI — Each March, sea turtle ...
A baby green turtle (left) and a baby loggerhead (right), excavated by conservationists in Florida. Each March, sea turtle nesting season begins with the females’ slow yet determined scooch onto ...