The Hump, a trendy Santa Monica hangout for jet setters and exotic sushi fanatics alike, may have served its last plate of endangered wildlife.

The U.S. government has recommended an endangered listing for the Loggerhead sea turtle. The Loggerhead's numbers have been decimated by fishing gear and damage to their nesting sites.

© Oceana/Carlos Suarez We're celebrating a big win yesterday for loggerhead sea turtles. In response to two petitions submitted in 2007 by Oceana, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Turtle Island Restoration Network, yest...

The Cayman Island Sea Turtle Farm was established by entrepreneur and libertarian hero Antony Fisher in 1968. Unfortunately, the farm went bankrupt when the trade in sea turtle products was banned internationally. Now a govern...

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Researchers conducted the first field study showing how endangered loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings use their limbs to move quickly on a variety of terrains in order to reach the ocean....

"Grumpy Gordon was immediately confined to the 'naughty' tank after his snapping tantrums shocked Sea Life staff... As a more mature snapper turtle, Gordy has quite a jowly chin and grumpy face." [Telegraph] ...

Louise Hill of Love to Cake is a London-based graphic designer and visual effects artist. That is her trade, but her passion is making fancy cakes. This sea turtle cake won her the gold medal at Britain’s 2009 Cake Show. flickr ph...

"I won gold with this sea turtle cake at the Cake Show 2009. He would feed about 60 people." Found at Love to Cake's Flickr photostream....

Kate Walsh swims with a green sea turtle. © Tim Calver Last night our favorite TV doctor and sea turtle lover Kate Walsh appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Jimmy displayed a photo of Kate swimming alongside a sea turtle from her trip ...

A green sea turtle at the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in Topsail Island, NC. The center often takes in cold-stunned turtles. © Jeff Janowski/Oceana This winter has been a doozy around the country, and...

Last night our favorite TV doctor and sea turtle lover Kate Walsh appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Jimmy displayed a photo of Kate swimming alongside a sea turtle from her trip with Oceana to the U.S. Virgin Islands. Kate fought bac...

A cold stunned endangered green turtle is kept warm at SeaWorld Orlando. Photo by Jason Collier courtesy of PRNewsFoto/SeaWorld The severe weather hitting the South has sent a cold snap to the Sunshine State, leaving iguanas paral...

Fact: The Great Yarmouth Sea Life Centre in Norfolk, England, gives its Green turtles brussels sprouts as a Christmas treat. Fact: Brussels sprouts kind of make you gassy. Fact: In 2008, the bubbles produced by sprout-induced turtle...

Looking up something else in my Merriam-Webster, I ran across ridley, the name of two varieties of sea turtle. What struck me was the conjunction of the etymology and the date, respectively "unknown" and 1926. There are lots of wo...

For hundreds of poor villagers in eastern India a recently discovered rare sea turtle is considered the incarnation of the Hindu deity, Lord Jagannath. There is no telling them otherwise as they have refused, despite serious pressur...

Video of a turtle hatchling crawling to the sea on Heron Island set to “Girl You Never Knew” by Georgia Wonder. Adult turtles have no natural predators, but only one in a thousand make it that far. On Heron Island in Australia’s Gr...

Photo: Bill Curtsinger/Nat. Geo A rare and endangered olive ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) washed up on Stinson Beach last week at the Seadrift gated community, far from its preferred habitat in warmer Pacific waters. Du...