(TNS) — ST. THOMAS — Officials with the University of the Virgin Islands have begun using drones to count sea turtles in Brewers Bay. Researchers don’t yet know how many sea turtles exist in the bay, ...
Scientists from Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill have found a powerful new weapon for counting elusive sea turtles: camera-equipped drones. A drone equipped with a high-resolution digital camera ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - NOAA is asking for the public’s help in reporting honu sightings across the islands. The organization launched a new online survey for people to report sightings of sea ...
Scientists want to know more about a little turtle called a terrapin, so they've asked volunteers to help count them. Kelly Kenoyer with member station WHQR in Wilmington, N.C., went on a quest to ...
The Arkansas Delta is crawling with red-eared sliders, stinkpots and river cooters. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission wants to make sure it stays that way. The commission has funded a three-year ...
Raine Island, a remote vegetated coral cay on the outer edges of the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia, hosts the largest green turtle rookery in the world. NT News has reported that ...
The giant South American river turtle, also known as the Arrau turtle, is a threatened species native to freshwater lakes and rivers in the rivers and lakes in the Amazon and Orinoco basins. “We ...
MALENA, PANAMA — Just before daybreak, Arcelio Fuentes stands on the beach and empties a basket holding 93 baby sea turtles into the churning surf. Some of them are snatched by preying sea gulls and ...
Scientists are relying more and more on non-scientists to help them gather data. That was the case recently on North Carolina's coast, where volunteers spent a day counting terrapin turtles.