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 ...

Scientists studying sea turtle hatchlings and eggs have found no male baby sea turtles on Florida beaches for the past four years Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been ...

In many turtle species, temperature determines the sex of hatchlings — a biological process known as temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD). Rather than genetics alone deciding whether a sea ...

Because of rising temperatures, more sea turtles are being born female. Cooling nest temperatures could help reduce the trend. Turtle conservation efforts must also address threats beyond climate ...

A female loggerhead turtle that was rescued after wedging itself between rocks Monday morning did not nest during her interrupted trip along the beach, according to the town's sea turtle nesting ...

The signaling pathways leading to female development are not well known in many animal species, probably because development of embryos into females was traditionally considered the default ...

Only female sea turtles have hatched on Florida's coasts over the past four years, according to animal experts. Bette Zirkelbach, manager of the Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Florida, says higher ...

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 ...