The shell of an adult hawksbill sea turtle consists of about a dozen overlapping scales colored with streaks of gold, brown, orange, and red. Hawksbills have long been hunted for their shells—the ...

Bear, a critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle, was released months after she was discovered stranded on the Australian ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. Globally distributed ...

Costa Rican marine biologist Ariana Oporta-McCarthy grew up close to where a critically-endangered turtle nests: now she's helping to save it. Over the last 200 years, the Hawksbill turtle ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. For centuries, hawksbill sea turtles have returned to a shoreline in the eastern Philippines to lay their eggs, even as the human community has ...

The shells of the hawksbill sea turtle have been used for luxury items for centuries, but with the species now endangered, new technology is pinpointing where protections are needed most Though they ...

The sight of over 1,400 pieces of sea turtle shells, most about the size of dinner plates, on the floor of a warehouse near Miami International Airport was a sobering reminder that South Florida is a ...

Hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) are a critically endangered species. They are found in shallow tropical waters in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans and help maintain the health of ...

Enoshima, Japan — It all began long ago with a pair of eyeglasses. Tokugawa Ieyasu, who ruled Japan in the early 1600s, acquired a new pair for himself with frames delicately crafted from the carapace ...

Sea Turtle: Sea turtles are ancient species, having been around since the time of the dinosaurs. Fossils from the oldest marine turtle date back 120 million years. Females and males are the same size ...