The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...

Green turtles once numbered in the hundreds of millions. Today, breeding populations worldwide are greatly reduced, primarily due to degradation of nesting habitats, overexploitation of eggs and ...

Here are ten fun facts about turtles that highlight their ... Some species, like the green sea turtle, are primarily herbivorous, feeding on seagrasses and algae. Others, like the snapping turtle ...

Green sea turtles are adjusting their nesting habits in response to rising global temperatures. Individual females are laying their eggs earlier in the season to cope with warmer conditions ...

The sea turtles, ranging in size from 3 to 35 pounds, were released by the Zoo’s sea turtle team and TAMU Galveston’s Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research.

As global temperatures continue to rise due to the impacts of human-caused climate change, sea turtles are changing their nesting behaviors in response. Green and loggerhead turtles in Cyprus ...

The carcass of a green sea turtle washed ashore on Marina beach in Chennai late on Friday. This is a species seen rarely on the north Tamil Nadu coast compared to the Olive Ridley sea turtles.