Every year, hundreds of loggerheads, Kemp’s ridleys, greens, and other sea turtle species wash ashore on Massachusetts beaches, mostly along the coast of Cape Cod Bay. Stranding season peaks in late ...
NOW, SCIENTISTS AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY ARE WORKING TO FIND OUT WHY. LET’S CHECK IN WITH OUR METEOROLOGIST HEATHER WALDMAN. SHE’S HERE WITH US LIVE. SO, HEATHER, SCIENTISTS HAVE SOME IDEA OF WHAT’S ...
Through satellite mapping software, the movements of 20 turtles tagged in Iran, Oman, United Arab Emirates and Qatar have already been recorded and initial findings have uncovered interesting results.
STANFORD, Calif. (KGO) -- When we first met a group of endangered loggerhead sea turtles last year, they were plunging into the Pacific, outfitted with satellite tracking devices. Since then, ...
It also means that the turtles are more vulnerable to being caught unintentionally by fishing gear in coastal and offshore areas. The eastern Pacific population had a different migration pattern, ...
Endangered green sea turtles that in recent years have been found expanding into waters off Southern California could get more protection of their habitat, migration routes and forage areas. The ...
Scientists in Georgia are using DNA from one egg per sea turtle nest to track ancestry and migration patterns. Human activities, such as leaving trash on beaches and disturbing nests, can negatively ...
Many of the ocean’s most charismatic animals spend their lives swimming, flying, or gliding thousands of miles, from the coasts to the high seas. Arctic terns, humpback whales, and sea turtles are ...
(CN) — Green sea turtles, long known as creatures of habit, may have been feasting on the same North African seagrass beds for millennia, according to research published in the Proceedings of the ...
Two sea turtles named Ariel and Moana were released back into the ocean at Disney's Vero Beach Resort. The turtles are part of the Disney Conservation and Sea Turtle Conservatory's Tour de Turtles ...