Sanibel-Captiva - Island Reporter, Islander and Current

SCCF: 889 sea turtle nests laid on islands

The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) reported that the 2025 sea turtle nesting season in Southwest Florida ...
Your Observer

Turtles born on Longboat return home to nest decades later

Using brain-embedded magnetite crystals, sea turtles will make a 10,000-mile trek as adults back to their birthplace to nest.
Science Daily

Record sargassum piles trap sea turtle hatchlings on Florida beaches

Sargassum seaweed is creating major new obstacles for sea turtle hatchlings, drastically slowing their crawl to the ocean and ...
Hawk Central

Beach erosion, rising tides and groundwater, and feral hogs impede sea turtle hatchings

Flooding and high tides in Georgia are impacting sea turtle nests on Ossabaw, Wassaw, and Tybee Islands. Predators, such as hogs and coyotes, are taking advantage of the flooding to access nests.
CAI

A bright spot for turtles: Olive ridleys are recovering in India, but still at risk

India's olive ridley turtle numbers appear to have rebounded after years of patchwork efforts to stem their decline. Can it ...

Stampeding Turtles Might Have Made Fossil Tracks in Italian Cliffs

Rocky cliffs run into the Adriatic Sea near Ancona, Italy. There, above the pebbly coast in 2019, rock climbers explored ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Sea turtle Dilly Dally released into the ocean with three flippers after undergoing amputation

Dilly Dally, a loggerhead turtle who survived a run-in with a predator that ultimately cost her a front flipper, has been released from a Florida animal hospital back into the Atlantic Ocean. "No ...