Two sites in northern Palm Beach County offer nighttime trips to see a remarkable sight: mother turtles laying their nests along the beach.

While turtle sightings are not guaranteed, there is a 92% success rate for seeing a turtle lay eggs during an excursion at Loggerhead Marinelife Center, according to Hannah Campbell, its director ...

A pregnant turtle needs your help to find her way home. An Eastern box turtle, estimated to be about 10 years old, was left ...

Sea turtle egg-laying season is about to begin, and several South Florida sites are offering nighttime walks to see the enormous creatures come in from the ocean, lay their eggs on the beach and ...

Snapping turtles rely on instinct when laying their eggs. Using their back legs, they dig a hole in soft, sandy ground. Once the eggs are laid, the mother turtle buries them and leaves without ...

The female turtles nest from mid-June to mid-July.

Among reptiles, some groups, such as turtles and crocodilians, only lay eggs; they are never livebearers. Most snakes and lizards also lay eggs, but approximately 20 percent are livebearers.

Sea turtles are known to be majestic creatures that spend most of their lives in the ocean. However, there is one extraordinary event that occurs on land – the sea turtle egg laying process ...

Because turtles, all of which lay eggs, entered the scene about 220 million years ago. ... but the embryos develop inside the mother instead of in a shelled egg outside the body.