The turtle’s shell is unique, but the evolution of the structure has been a mystery. Now Japanese scientists have figured out that the shell develops from an unusual folding process inside the egg ...

As measures to protect sea turtles ebb and flow, the turtle’s “lost years” spent out at sea after they hatch on beaches along ...

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MIAMI — Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice cores—are now being repurposed to better understand the lives of modern ...

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 ...