Professor by night, park ranger by day, protector of sea turtles always. That was the late Hank Smith, a unique person in Florida’s environmental history. I knew him as a colleague at Florida Atlantic ...

INDIAN ROCKS BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Just as they have for millions of years, sea turtles by the thousands made their labored crawl from the ocean to U.S. beaches to lay their eggs over the past several ...

Florida beaches are about to get filled with sea turtle eggs as the nesting season starts in March. This is the time female sea turtles come ashore to lay their eggs. Wildlife officials estimate the ...

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Sea turtle nests increased this year along a stretch of Florida’s Gulf Coast before a trio of hurricanes washed many of them away, aquarium officials said Friday. There were 271 ...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally crawled into the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday morning, months after having a front flipper amputated at a Florida turtle ...

An endangered sea turtle was rescued after getting stuck between rocks on a Florida beach, authorities said Monday. The loggerhead sea turtle came ashore in Martin County to lay eggs and tried to make ...