Explore their habitat needs, behavior, diet, and care guide. Aquatic turtles are enjoyable to observe, particularly the distinctive African sideneck turtle. They earned their name because they cannot ...

Conservation of sea turtles along much of Africa's east coast has made good progress in recent decades—but tens of thousands of turtles still die each year due to human activity, researchers say.

Five species of marine turtles are reported to nest on African beaches - the green (Chelonia mydas), the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata), the loggerhead (Caretta caretta), the leatherback ...

A network of West African Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) covers key sites used by green turtles, new research shows. A network of West African Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) covers key sites used by ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers have traced the 3,000-year-old “food footprints” of endangered green sea turtles around the Mediterranean. By comparing turtle bone ...

The island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe is home to unique species and rich marine ecosystems, including threatened sea turtles. In 2014, the country enacted a law banning the trade and possession ...

The world's third-largest nesting ground for Loggerhead turtles can be found on the island beaches of the small African nation of Cape Verde, known locally as Cabo Verde. The average Loggerhead Turtle ...

This story appears in the February 2021 issue of National Geographic magazine. About 260 million years ago the earliest ancestor of turtles and tortoises, a bulbous reptile known as Eunotosaurus ...

Conservation of sea turtles along much of Africa's east coast has made good progress in recent decades – but tens of thousands of turtles still die each year due to human activity, researchers say.

Conservation of sea turtles along much of Africa's east coast has made good progress in recent decades -- but tens of thousands of turtles still die each year due to human activity, researchers say.