Climate change is skewing turtle populations by altering hatchling sex ratios. Explore how temperature affects turtles, why ...

Scientists are trying to understand how a chemical used in many common consumer products -- think water bottles or food containers -- could be having a strange effect on turtles: making male turtles ...

Warming temperatures are having a profound and potentially devastating impact on one of the most important green sea turtle populations in the world. Scientists were surprised to find that "virtually ...

Summer campers at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center wait to see a loggerhead turtle released, waving signs that say "Welcome Home!" and "Good Luck Bovenizer" Bovenizer was ready to make a beeline for ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — In her lab, just off the main campus at Florida Atlantic University, biologist Jeanette Wyneken likes to quip, "Hot chicks and cool dudes." It’s her way of explaining how sea turtles ...

BOCA RATON, Fla. — The struggle to save the already endangered green sea turtle faces a new challenge. The turtles nearly vanished 40 years ago in Florida, but a coordinated effort by conservationists ...

Most male loggerhead turtles go back to the nesting beaches to breed –- a common behavior among female turtles --, according to a new study. Most male loggerhead turtles go back to the nesting beaches ...

Before turtles are hatched — when they're just tiny embryos inside their eggs — they may be able to influence whether they will become male or female, according to a study in China. And this could ...

Scientists have started to crack the 50-year-old puzzle of how temperature turns baby turtles male or female. Researchers show that cooler egg incubation temperatures turn up a key gene called Kdm6b ...

Like many reptiles, the sex of a turtle is determined by how warm the egg is as it's being incubated. And small temperature differences can cause... Warming temperatures are having a profound and ...