This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. To see all that’s hopeful and appalling about the way we treat sea turtles, there’s no better place to start than ...

Leatherbacks are the largest turtles on Earth, growing up to seven feet long and exceeding 2,000 pounds. These reptilian relics are the only remaining representatives of a family of turtles that ...

The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...

And though their nesting grounds are protected and many commercial fishing fleets now use turtle excluder devices in their nets, these turtles have not been able to rebound. For this reason ...

Try Panama. Looking for a truly remote, off-the-grid adventure? Try Panama. This dog can find rare sea turtle nests—shockingly successfully This dog can find rare sea turtle nests—shockingly ...

Olive and Kemp’s ridleys are the smallest of the sea turtles, weighing up to 100 pounds and reaching only about 2 feet in shell length. The olive ridley has a slightly smaller head and smaller s ...

This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Sprawled on its back amid a curious crowd was an immense black sea turtle tipping the scales at 900 pounds, with ...

Growing more than 10 feet (3 meters) long, Protostega was among the largest turtles to ever live. Unlike most turtles, whose shells are made of expanded and fused bones that form a relatively ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... invasive rats and mice running rampant, native sea turtles and giant tortoises being exploited.

This dog can find rare sea turtle nests—shockingly successfully This dog can find rare sea turtle nests—shockingly successfully Help save sea turtles in Trinidad and Tobago Help save sea ...

This dog can find rare sea turtle nests—shockingly successfully This dog can find rare sea turtle nests—shockingly successfully Two-Headed Baby Turtle Swims to Sea—Will It Survive?