This year a stunning fluorescent view of a turtle embryo won first place. Microscopy technician Teresa Zgoda and recent university graduate Teresa Kugler captured the image using fluorescence ...

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.

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 ...

Other studies suggest that the earlier egg-laying seen now in some turtle species seems to be enough to offset the effects of warming temperatures on the eggs. “This gives them a much better ...

This unprecedented access allows us to follow the baby turtles on their incredible journey from embryo to hatchling to the day they finally emerge from the nest, ready to take their first perilous ...

Sea turtles have an incubation period of about two months before a hatchling emerges from its egg. After the incubation period, the turtle hatchlings will dig out of the nest together to reach the ...