Young sea turtles actively swim and choose their paths instead of drifting. New satellite tracking reveals their movements.

Using satellite trackers, scientists have discovered the whereabouts of young sea turtles during a key part of their lives.

In a new study, biology researchers from the College of Sciences’ UCF Marine Turtle Research Group studied the dispersal ...

Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to specific areas after long migrations.

Eventually the GPS tags slough off because “the outside of a young turtle’s shell sheds as they grow very quickly,” said ...

The United States Coast Guard took five endangered sea turtles more than two hours offshore for release on Thursday.

Steering small boats, they looked for young turtles ... This photo provided by researchers shows a young green sea turtle with a satellite tag before release offshore of Venice, La., ...

Steering small boats, they looked for young turtles ... This photo provided by researchers shows a young green sea turtle with a satellite tag before release offshore of Venice, La., ...

Steering small boats, they looked for young turtles ... a critical region for four species of endangered sea turtles. “It’s not that the sea turtles were ever lost, but that we had lost ...