Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. Globally distributed ...

The shell of an adult hawksbill sea turtle consists of about a dozen overlapping scales colored with streaks of gold, brown, orange, and red. Hawksbills have long been hunted for their shells—the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. For centuries, hawksbill sea turtles have returned to a shoreline in the eastern Philippines to lay their eggs, even as the human community has ...

The Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) is one of the seven species of marine turtles and one of six in the family Cheloniidae. It is easily distinguished from other turtle species by its ...

Costa Rican marine biologist Ariana Oporta-McCarthy grew up close to where a critically-endangered turtle nests: now she's helping to save it. Over the last 200 years, the Hawksbill turtle ...

Yes, this sea turtle is glowing neon green and red. No, it's not radioactive. The critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle is the first reptile scientists have seen exhibiting biofluorescence—the ...