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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TEMPE, Ariz. — Creative gender reveals are so popular that it's become a bit of a challenge to come up with original ideas. One expectant couple asked the folks at the SEA LIFE Arizona aquarium to ...

It's turtle nesting season in Ontario and conservationists are working to protect endangered species and their nests. "Right now, we're at the peak of nesting season," said Scott Gillingwater, a ...

All of sea turtles that hatched in Florida recorded this year were female, a turtle hospital said. Climate change is warming up the beaches, which is skewing the sex balance towards more females.

MELBOURNE, Fla. — As the sun rises on sea turtle nests across the Space Coast, biologists see new rays of hope. Many feared for the future of Florida’s three most prominent types of endangered sea ...

Rising temperatures have caused a major spike in female sea turtle births along Florida’s coast, PEOPLE reports. According to researchers, every sea turtle born on the beaches of Florida in recent ...