Registration is open for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition that offers participants a shot at $25,000 ...

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCBD) – Some members of the Folly Beach Turtle Watch Program caught a rare sighting at the end of the Folly Beach Pier. The program is used to dealing with loggerheads and green sea ...

Padre Island National Seashore is reducing volunteer patrols for the upcoming Kemp's ridley sea turtle nesting season. Volunteers and community members have expressed concern that fewer nests will be ...

Recovery of this softshell turtle species now requires working with a global population of only two or possibly three known individuals, though the exact number remains uncertain due to ongoing ...

Loggerhead turtles accounted for the vast majority of nests, with 5,384 recorded. A record number of sea turtle disorientations, 716 instances, were also documented this year. Experts advise beach ...

As recently as August 2024, researchers in Greece documented the non-native Chinese stripe‑necked turtle (Mauremys sinensis) on the island of Lesbos during fieldwork, finding three adults co-occurring ...

BEAUFORT — While there are still little sea turtles patiently waiting in their eggs for the signal to emerge from the sand and dash for the waves, the nesting season for mother turtles has drawn to a ...

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCIV) — Sea Turtle hatchling season is here and volunteers with the Folly Beach Turtle Watch Program were able to track two separate nests hatch and a female loggerhead turtle lay a ...

A rare instance of a wild horse appearing to guard an endangered sea turtle nest was witnessed by tourists visiting North Carolina’s Outer Banks. A photo taken July 6 by Wild Horse Adventure Tours ...

Sea turtles are known to crawl from the Atlantic Ocean in the dark to dig nests along Outer Banks beaches in North Carolina. The eggs take up to 60 days to hatch, experts say. National Park Service ...