While often feared, these turtles are crucial to wetland ecosystems, acting as scavengers and helping regulate populations of smaller aquatic creatures. Their biology is equally fascinating, ...

These animals have adapted to so much. But now they need our help to survive something they can’t adapt to quickly enough: a ...

Sea turtle nests hit record highs in Florida this year, tripling last year's numbers. Most new turtles are girls, because a turtle's sex depends on the temperature they sit in as an egg. This is ...

The temperature of the sand where eggs are nesting determines the gender of most turtles. Rising temperatures have caused a major spike in female sea turtle births along Florida’s coast, PEOPLE ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — In her lab, just off the main campus at Florida Atlantic University, biologist Jeanette Wyneken likes to quip, "Hot chicks and cool dudes." It’s her way of explaining how sea turtles ...

Male sea turtles are disappearing from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. A new study of gender ratios found that 99 percent of immature green turtles born in the northern part of the reef are female.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – With sea turtle nesting season underway, chances are you know to keep an eye out for marked-off nests while you’re walking on the beach. That’s because sea turtles are just one of ...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Sea turtle nesting season is officially underway, which means thousands of turtles will come to our local beaches to lay their eggs from now through October. And the hot ...

Few species have their sex determined by temperatures, but for sea turtles it's almost a certainty. However, this natural occurrence could become a biological disadvantage as global temperatures ...

All of sea turtles that hatched in Florida recorded this year were female, a turtle hospital said. Climate change is warming up the beaches, which is skewing the sex balance towards more females.

College of Charleston Professor Dave Owens might have hit a gold mine, educationally speaking. Just two weeks after the South Carolina Aquarium brought in the first adult male sea turtle in its ...