Sea turtle nests hit record highs in Florida this year, tripling last year's numbers. Most new turtles are girls, because a turtle's sex depends on the temperature they sit in as an egg. This is ...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Sea turtle nesting season is officially underway, which means thousands of turtles will come to our local beaches to lay their eggs from now through October. And the hot ...

ISTANBUL, 24 May (BelTA - Anadolu) - As the rapidly warming planet affects all life on earth, rising nest temperatures are increasing the female sea turtle population, according to a Turkish expert.

“One male in 5 (females) doesn’t sound too bad,” Wyneken said. “One male in 100 sounds awful — that would be a pretty tired boy.” Figuring out a sea turtle’s gender is not as easy as just flipping the ...

"All over the world, the sea turtle gender balance is being thrown way out of whack," said Lucy Hawkes, the English ecologist who led the study on Boa Vista. Tourists won't see the effects immediately ...

Few species have their sex determined by temperatures, but for sea turtles it's almost a certainty. However, this natural occurrence could become a biological disadvantage as global temperatures ...