For her doctoral research, Martin, a PhD student at the University of Central Florida, has been analyzing sea turtle tears ... a microscope (shown in images below). Remarkably, those needles ...

Per the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, cold-stunning occurs when water temperatures drop below 50 degrees ... according to Sea Turtle, Inc. Once sea turtles are rescued ...

When a female sea turtle is ready to nest, she will dig a hole in the sand, lay between 80 to 120 eggs, cover the hole and crawl back to the ocean. The eggs are typically laid about a foot below ...

Nearly all of the animals rescued offshore Bay and Gulf counties were green sea turtles, except for eight loggerhead turtles and one Kemp’s ridley — the most endangered turtle species on Earth.

I grab more seaweed and uncover what I’ve been searching for: a Kemp’s ridley turtle, a member of the world’s most endangered species of sea turtle ... about 20 degrees below normal.

Researchers at New England Aquarium are using acoustic tags to track movements of loggerhead sea turtles that were rescued from Cape Cod beaches and rehabilitated at the aquarium's Sea Turtle ...