The Outside Story shows how turtles have the capacity to withstand freezing temperatures in winter, some by freezing completely.
When temperatures drop, some water turtles — including painted turtles and common snapping turtles — search out the soft ...
An “epigenetic” adaptation could prevent large numbers of loggerhead turtles from hatching as female due to climate change – ...
The first successful hatching of baby turtles at the reptile zoo represents an important operational milestone. The footage ...
About the size of a half-dollar, the tiny painted river terrapin hatchling - a critically endangered species - at the ...
For the first time in years, leatherbacks have returned to nest in significant numbers on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua.
Five rescued northern diamondback terrapin hatchlings will spend the winter at the Liberty Science Center. The turtles were rescued from a vulnerable nesting site on Long Beach Island after hatching ...
Loggerhead turtles accounted for the vast majority of nests, with 5,384 recorded. A record number of sea turtle disorientations, 716 instances, were also documented this year. Experts advise beach ...
If you’re looking for sandy white beaches and turquoise waters, Grande Riviere in Trinidad isn’t the place. Its beauty is wilder: rainforest pressing up against the shore, a river spilling into the ...
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Hatchlings were trained to associate a food reward with a specific pattern such as a bullseye at the end of a Y-maze. In the reversal phase, the reward was switched to a different pattern, requiring ...
So far this year, some 90,000 loggerhead turtle hatchlings have emerged from their sandy nests on a pair of beaches located within the Cape Romain National Wildlife. And this wasn’t even a great year ...