With Help, Sea Turtles Rally to Escape Oblivion
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Olive ridley sea turtles are making a comeback, largely because of Mexican conservation efforts.
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From a gentles creature, a lesson in ferocious tenacity.
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Scientists think they may know why the world's largest leatherback turtle was washed up on a Welsh beach.
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A baby spiny turtle has hatched  in Jersey, giving conservationists fresh hope for the endangered species.
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Jerry Pate handled the howling wind to win the Turtle Bay Championship on Sunday, closing with a 2-under 70 for a two-stroke victory over Jim Thorpe and senior rookie Fulton Allem.
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In the wake of an ocean wave that horrified an unready world, hundreds of U.N. conference delegates Tuesday got down to the business of finding ways to give man more of an edge in an age-old battle with the worst of nature.
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BALTIMORE, Sept. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The National Aquarium in Baltimore's Marine Animal Rescue Program today released a rehabilitated endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle. The turtle was stranded in June on Hooper's Island in the Chesapeake Bay.
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Oil-covered birds are rescued at a Devon beach where the stricken container ship MSC Napoli is being broken up.
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After a two-week sojourn through a Northern California river delta, two lost whales were moving closer to an ocean homecoming.
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By CHRISTINA ABEL  Because of a new federal law to protect sea turtles' nests, horses will have to watch where they step on the beaches in St. Johns County.  To comply with the U.S.
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Birds coated in oil were carried to a wildlife refuge by volunteers trying to save them from the largest oil spill on the Delaware River in nearly a decade.
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By Maggie FitzRoy  The rising sun painted the horizon pink one recent morning as Beaches Sea Turtle Patrol volunteer Shelli Martin walked the beach. In the dusty light, she looked for evidence that a female sea turtle had come ashore during the night, laid her eggs and headed back to sea.
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Sea turtles are spawning in record numbers along Mexico's Pacific coast this year, thanks largely to stepped up protection against poachers, the nation's environmental watchdog said on Wednesday.
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About half the usual number of loggerhead turtles have nested between North Carolina and Florida this season, and scientists have no explanation for the drop.
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Malaysia has set aside 60 hectares of land off the east coast state of Terengganu to help conserve its dwindling number of endangered sea turtles.
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By Murdo MacLeod  HEBRIDEAN crofters armed with old salmon nets are defying Atlantic storms which threaten to wash their island away.
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Norwegian researchers on a remote Arctic island have recovered rare fossil remains of two giant marine reptiles, one of them reminiscent of the fabled Loch Ness monster.