The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...

Turtle soup became a popular delicacy in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries, with the dish appearing on ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service must designate protected critical habitat for green sea turtles under a new legal agreement with ...

GALVESTON, Texas — A large group of green sea turtles are back home in the Gulf after a long ordeal that began last fall. The 24 cold-stunned sea turtles were recently released from Stewart ...

Humans are one of the most voracious predators of sea turtles, and a number of turtle species are sought for their meat, fat, oil ... that the number of green sea turtles in the Caribbean has ...