As of June 13, nearly 940 sea turtle nests had been identified along Georgia’s coast. One egg from each of those nests has been split open and emptied into a test tube. All that data contributes to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sea turtle nesting season has just about wrapped up and now, it’s time for hatches. There are more than 300 buried loggerhead, ...

Above file video: 34 rehabilitated sea turtles released back into the ocean on Jekyll Island During the first week of July, the popular travel center and gas station chain Buc-ee’s opened its largest ...

Jekyll, Wassaw, and Blackbeard islands each saw the arrival of loggerhead nests, marking the beginning of what experts anticipate will be another active nesting season. " It’s like clockwork,” ...

It’s a scene played out since the age of dinosaurs. But for those fortunate enough to witness this rite of spring along the Georgia coast today, the performance never gets old. From a safe distance – ...

Is watching baby sea turtles crawl across the beach on your bucket list? Your window of opportunity is here. On Wednesday, the Georgia Sea Turtle Center reported the state's first hatchlings of the ...

A girl in Georgia is proving that animals are just like people. Kendall Barfield, 12, recently met her adopted juvenile green sea turtle named Bandit, who currently resides at Georgia Sea Turtle ...

JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. - You remember how the old story goes: slow and steady, the tortoise wins the race. And at a race next weekend, it’s the sea turtles that’ll be the winners, no matter who crosses ...

ATLANTA - A prolific turtle trapper is accused of illegally trapping and exporting thousands of freshwater turtles in Georgia. Nathan Horton, 36, was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly ...

Volunteers carefully dug through the sand during a recent sunset on Tybee Island, lifting the last loggerhead sea turtle eggs of the season out of their deep holes on the beach. For the Georgia Sea ...

Georgia’s endangered sea turtles are being fruitful and multiplying in record numbers. This week, Georgia officially hit its record for sea turtle nests, with 3,966 nests recorded, according to a news ...