Olive and Kemp’s ridleys are the smallest of the sea turtles, weighing up to 100 pounds and reaching only about 2 feet in shell length. The olive ridley has a slightly smaller head and smaller s ...

(The other species, the olive ridley ... where they can live for decades. The world’s smallest sea turtles, they grow about two feet long. Vast numbers of Kemp’s ridleys once nested ...

This small town on Venezuela’s Caribbean coast, known for producing such baseball stars as Alcides Escobar and Ronald Acuña Jr., is home to four of the seven sea turtle species on Earth.

Executive orders signed in the White House means international marine turtle conservation work is on hold for now, leaving ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition today urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the southern population of the bog turtle as a federal endangered ...