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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Conservation efforts include the turtle egg incubation programme where eggs are collected from natural nests and incubated in centres to ensure high hatching rates, Adnan said. “A total of 5.12 ...