Mote Marine Laboratory's Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program (STCRP) documented the first local turtle activity of the 2025 season on Saturday, April 26. The STCRP team reported one ...

JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. — Georgia’s very first sea turtle hatchlings of the 2025 season are here. Action News Jax told you when the state’s first sea turtle nest of the season was laid on the shores of ...

Sea turtles return to the same nesting sites year after year to grow their populations, but rising global temperatures have disrupted this ancient cycle. New research has found that two sea turtle ...

Every summer, as the sun sets over the shores of Palm Beach County, one of nature’s most awe-inspiring spectacles quietly unfolds in the sand. Sea turtles — greens, leatherbacks and loggerheads — ...

Volunteers with Escambia County Sea Turtle Patrol found the first nest of the 2025 season, a loggerhead turtle nest, early on March 11 Volunteers and staff check recorded nests daily to monitor for ...

Here's the good news we all need this week: Mote’s Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program (STCRP) documented a historic nesting season in 2025, with 5,735 total nests recorded along 35 miles of ...

Leatherback turtles are expected to have another high nesting season, setting a record for the earliest nest recorded in Florida on Feb. 16. While sea turtle population numbers seem to be steadying as ...

Florida beaches are about to get filled with sea turtle eggs as the nesting season starts in March. This is the time female sea turtles come ashore to lay their eggs. Wildlife officials estimate the ...

Leatherback sea turtle on a beach. By Herve06 via iStock for WMNF News. Clearwater Marine Aquarium (CMA) launched its sea turtle nesting patrol on April 15, two weeks earlier than in previous decades.

New research shows that turtles are responding to climate change by nesting earlier. Researchers monitoring nesting green and ...