The elevated temperatures can cook turtle embryos before they hatch. Furthermore, like alligators and crocodiles, the sex of most turtles is determined after egg fertilization. If the eggs ...

Ideally, researchers would follow turtles in the wild from egg to death to see how different conditions affect their development. But sea turtles take more than 10 years to mature and live for decades ...

A 1-degree-Celsius change in water temperature prompts sea turtles in Northern Cyprus to lay eggs nearly a week earlier on average.

I didn’t hear it when they were hatching or when they were out of the egg,” she says. The baby turtles appeared to be communicating with each other while still inside their shells.