New research is revealing that baby sea turtles do not simply drift on ocean currents during their first epic journey. Instead, they carry a built‑in magnetic sense that lets them read Earth’s field ...

Playing with my children on a beach on Hatteras Island, a barrier island off the coast of North Carolina, I struck up a conversation with a man walking his dog. We were standing next to a turtle nest, ...

Down a gravel road, just on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge in Skamania County, is a 64-acre sanctuary for the western pond turtle. Turtle Haven isn’t on any maps, and the few ...