When a hatching sea turtle first pokes its head above the sand and scrambles to the sea, a watching child might ask how the turtle knows where to go and how girl turtles know to come back one day to a ...

A disoriented turtle nest will often lead to sea turtle hatchlings losing their lives just moments after hatching. But luck was on the side of five loggerhead hatchlings who lost their way into two ...

Loggerhead turtles are able to sense Earth's magnetic field in two ways, but it wasn't clear which sense the animals use to detect the magnetic field when navigating using the magnetic map they are ...

So far this year, some 90,000 loggerhead turtle hatchlings have emerged from their sandy nests on a pair of beaches located within the Cape Romain National Wildlife. And this wasn’t even a great year ...

A live-streaming, high-definition "turtle webcam" positioned on a beach in the Florida Keys has recorded the hatch of about 100 baby loggerhead sea turtles. The webcam has been focused on the nest in ...

EDISTO BEACH, S.C. (WCIV) — The first sea turtle hatchlings of the year have made their debut on Edisto Island over the weekend, marking the beginning of a season where hundreds of thousands of young ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE LOOKOUT, N.C. (WNCN) — Activity at the ...