Tag: sea turtles

When tracking the nesting habits of turtles that circumnavigate the globe, it’s sometimes necessary to take the long view. Researchers are tapping into satellite images to get an accurate reading...

Taiwanese snakes will risk a lot for fresh turtle eggs. Female Formosa kukri snakes (Oligodon formosanus) feed almost entirely on reptile eggs, but they have a particular taste for sea...

It’s not unusual for sea turtles to turn up cold-stunned and stranded on Cape Cod beaches. As they migrate south from the Gulf of Maine to the Gulf of Mexico...

New tools using ocean data, including weather and ocean chemistry, are helping determine where fisherman can avoid bycatch of protected sea turtles and other species. Using information that predicts people’s...

A team of researchers has found successful conservation strategies that could mitigate the impacts of climate change on sea turtles. Working on the Dutch Caribbean island of St. Eustatius, the...

Scientists knew that sea turtles often swallow large pieces of plastic floating in the ocean, creating swallowing hazards. Now, a team of researchers has found evidence of microplastics appearing in...

When Texas A&M University marine biologist Christine Figgener uploaded a video of her team pulling a plastic drinking straw from the nose of an olive Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea),...

Sea turtle strandings are common on New England beaches in the fall as plummeting water temperatures bring “cold-stunned” turtles to shore. But biologists say an unusually high number of sea...

People are replacing lighting sources with LED lights to save energy, leading researchers to test out wildlife responses to them. In a new study published in Journal of Experimental Zoology...

Contaminants in the environment can have a range of harmful impacts on threatened wildlife, but without extensive field work, it’s hard to gauge what those impacts are. A group of...