The elevated temperatures can cook turtle embryos before they hatch. Furthermore, like alligators and crocodiles, the sex of most turtles is determined after egg fertilization. If the eggs ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...