Sea turtles might be facing an unusual problem: too many girls. Unlike a human baby, whose X and Y chromosomes determine whether it will be born a boy or a girl, a sea turtle's sex is defined during ...

image: New University of East Anglia research into the mating habits of a critically endangered sea turtle will help conservationists understand more about its mating patterns. The turtle is ...

Female sea turtles mate multiply to ensure fertilization. A study of nesting loggerhead female sea turtles in southwest Florida used genotyping to uncover how many fathers were represented in their ...

ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) – Turtle mating season enters its second month and that’s if they can find a mate. One reason why they are on the move and dying is because they aren’t paying attention and being ...

SUZHOU, China – She's around 80 years old. He's 100. Breathless scientists watched as the world's most endangered turtles successfully mated. But the attempt to breed the species' last known female ...