The second-most-common catch on Costa Rica’s longline fisheries in the last decade was not a commercial fish species. It was olive ridley sea turtles. These lines also caught more green turtles than ...

Ostional Beach is one of only two places in the world where the natural phenomenon of olive ridley turtle arrivals and nesting occurs on a massive scale. Now, it is also an inclusive beach, featuring ...

A deformed two-headed olive ridley sea turtle hatchling was found on a beach on Costa Rica’s northwest Pacific coast, leading experts to believe that contaminants, increased temperatures possibly ...

What: Nighttime turtle viewing at Las Baulas National Marine Park, nesting beach for leatherbacks, the world's largest reptile. Where: Playa Grande, along Costa Rica's "northern" Pacific coast. Why: ...

They didn't expect the turtle to be so big. Yes, they had been prepped by their teacher, Nancy Wolber at Rock Island High School, to expect that the adult leatherback sea turtle would be 6 feet long.

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...