When sea turtles lay their eggs, the temperature of the sand determines whether that egg becomes a male or female turtle. But the planet is getting hotter— and that means a lot more turtles, in key ...

Scientists studying sea turtle hatchlings and eggs have found no male baby sea turtles on Florida beaches for the past four years Only female sea turtles have hatched on Florida's coasts over the past ...

Florida’s sea turtles are grappling with a unique problem made worse by climate change: recent heat waves have caused the sand on some beaches to get so hot that nearly every turtle born was female.

Male sea turtles are disappearing from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. A new study of gender ratios found that 99 percent of immature green turtles born in the northern part of the reef are female.

Roughly one in 1,000 sea turtles reach maturity. In one nesting season, a turtle can lay between two to eight nests, with roughly 100 eggs in a clutch. For one turtle to reach sexual maturity and ...

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance researchers are celebrating their first successful breeding of an endangered Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle. The hatchlings are the product of a reproductive ...

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Florida's sea turtles are grappling with a gender imbalance made worse by climate change. Recent heat waves have caused the sand on some beaches to get so hot that nearly every turtle born was female.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Baby turtle doing her first steps to the ocean. Only female sea turtles have hatched on Florida's coasts over the past four years, ...