Leatherback Sea Turtles

Sea Turtle Transferred From Israel to Turkey

Three Threatened Loggerhead Turtles Released Safely Back into the Mediterranean After Being Entangled in Fishing Nets

Medicine & Technology May 23, 2022

Three loggerhead turtles that got caught in fishing gear have been released back into the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia. Read on to find out more about the endangered turtles and how tracking beacons are being used to conserve the species.

Sea Turtles Reveal A Sixth Sense—Finding Their Way Home & Sensing The Seasons

Jan 15, 2015

As a migratory species, Leatherback Sea Turtles (Dermochely coriacea) are a rare oddity of nature that spend their lives mostly in travel, between their breeding grounds in open ocean and their tropical places of birth. Travelling back and forth between the tropics and their hunting grounds to the north, the unique species follows the cool waters, as they flow throughout the oceans they inhabit. But that doesn't even begin to unravel their mysterious origins or how they know to traverse the seas.