Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A female loggerhead turtle that was rescued after wedging itself between rocks Monday morning did not nest during her interrupted ...

The temperature of the sand where eggs are nesting determines the gender of most turtles. Rising temperatures have caused a major spike in female sea turtle births along Florida’s coast, PEOPLE ...

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 ...

Scientists haven’t seen almost any male sea turtle hatch in Florida for years due to record temperatures, Reuters reports. Around 99 percent of all baby sea turtles are being born female in the state ...

TAMPA (WFLA) – In early April, Volusia County, Fla., marked it’s first turtle nest of the year and the earliest on record. Experts said the reason is warmer ocean waters are causing female turtles to ...

Climate change is having an unexpected and slightly jarring effect on the Florida sea turtle population: it’s skewing baby turtles mostly female. Rising atmospheric temperatures are causing the sand ...