* Description: Turtles are reptiles with limbs modified into swimming paddles. Loggerhead turtles have a characteristically large head, but they don't have a big brain: It's their jaws that are large.

Revealing active behaviour that adds to our understanding of the nature of a species. Isaac Szabo (USA) finds three loggerhead musk turtles sheltering in the soft clay bank of a spring-fed Florida ...

The first loggerhead sea turtle nest of the season was found on April 6 in Juno Beach, marking the second earliest loggerhead nesting recorded since 1983. Researchers at Loggerhead Marinelife Center ...

Florida's beaches—particularly those in Palm Beach County—are among the world's most vital nesting grounds for loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta), accounting for 90% of all loggerhead nests in ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Visitors to Queensland's famous Mon Repos Beach have witnessed history with a record number of endangered loggerhead turtles hauling their way up the sand dunes. The rookery on the Bundaberg coast, ...

The loggerhead turtle can learn and remember the magnetic signature of an area and does a ‘turtle dance’ when in a location that they associate with food, a study in Nature reports. The research ...

Beachgoers and residents called the KZN Strandings Network to collect the loggerhead turtle and take it to uShaka Marine World in Durban last week. Photo: Unknown. A loggerhead turtle was rescued last ...

KEY WEST, FLA. (WSVN) - A loggerhead sea turtle that was caught in a crab trap line has returned home after getting a helping hand in Key West. The massive loggerhead, named Molly, spent three months ...

Dr Jurgen Otto and his wife Miriam Otto rescuing the turtle nearby Mojitos restaurant AN exhausted-looking loggerhead turtle, dubbed Finley, was rescued from the water near Mojitos restaurant in ...

Identification of turtles -- Key to the turtles of the United States and Canada -- Chelydridae: snapping turtles -- Chelydra serpentina, snapping turtle -- Macroclemys temminckii, alligator snapping ...