A female loggerhead turtle that was rescued after wedging itself between rocks Monday morning did not nest during her interrupted trip along the beach, according to the town's sea turtle nesting ...

JAMAICA, Queens (WABC) -- Why would a bunch of turtles leave their comfortable swampland around Jamaica Bay, and wander onto a busy runway at JFK Airport? They've been using the runway to lay their ...

In the world of nature, June is a busy month filled with birth and egg-laying. We usually think of eggs as coming from birds. And rightly so, during this warm wet month. The migrants that stay with us ...

A record number of turtles are dying on Long Island as they wake from hibernation and cross roads to lay their eggs, only to be hit by motorists, wildlife experts say. Karen Testa, of Turtle Rescue of ...

For the first time, the world’s rarest species of sea turtle has laid eggs on Magnolia Beach in Texas, experts say. On Monday morning, R.J. Shelly, a Calhoun County Marine Extension Agent, received a ...

While visiting a couple of ponds and swamps this week, I could see how the season has been moving on. On the surface of the pollen-dusted water, I saw some movement. Expecting to observe swimming ...

A couple of decades ago, in my herpetology class at the University of Georgia, we were discussing evolutionary ecology and someone asked the age-old question, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg ...

Veronica Baruffati walks the stretch of sand on the southern end of Palm Beach every day, from her part-time Florida home north past Sloan’s Curve and back again. What she saw while walking that beach ...

Females don't necessarily lay eggs every time they come ashore ... Hatchlings will crawl toward light, and sometimes that light is manmade. Many turtles die each year from disorientation. Do not ...

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