Mote Marine Laboratory's Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program (STCRP) documented the first local turtle activity of the 2025 season on Saturday, April 26. The STCRP team reported one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every summer, as the sun sets over the shores of Palm Beach County, one of nature’s most awe-inspiring spectacles quietly unfolds ...

Leatherback turtles are expected to have another high nesting season, setting a record for the earliest nest recorded in Florida on Feb. 16. While sea turtle population numbers seem to be steadying as ...

St. Johns County is tilling beaches to prepare for sea turtle nesting season, which begins May 1. Learn about closures.

At the Florida Aquarium Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Center, the current turtles are a little too young for nesting season, but ...

Volunteers with Escambia County Sea Turtle Patrol found the first nest of the 2025 season, a loggerhead turtle nest, early on March 11 Volunteers and staff check recorded nests daily to monitor for ...

Here's the good news we all need this week: Mote’s Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program (STCRP) documented a historic nesting season in 2025, with 5,735 total nests recorded along 35 miles of ...

Leatherback sea turtle on a beach. By Herve06 via iStock for WMNF News. Clearwater Marine Aquarium (CMA) launched its sea turtle nesting patrol on April 15, two weeks earlier than in previous decades.

Florida's beaches—particularly those in Palm Beach County—are among the world's most vital nesting grounds for loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta), accounting for 90% of all loggerhead nests in ...

Nearly one week after St. Johns County leaders met with Durbin Crossing residents to address growing traffic safety concerns along Longleaf Pine Parkway, crosswalk signals have been installed near ...