Thousands to millions of tons of plastic enter the ocean annually, but where they end up is poorly understood.

I crouched about 20 feet behind a loggerhead sea turtle, waiting. I watched in silence, eyes straining in the weak red light of my headlamp, as she deposited one soft, ping-pong-ball-sized egg ...

a sea turtle hospital program manager. Their eggs, soft, porous and the size of ping-pong balls, develop into male or female offspring depending on the temperature of incubation. Once the ...

Each year, in late spring and early summer, female sea turtles will crawl out of the ... same direction or opposite directions, and they ping-pong between the two. This theory suggests that ...

And his turtle seemed to fit these criteria as it bobbed about bumping into a ping pong ball and a hoop that floated with him. Still, I remained a skeptic. But a mischievously simple demonstration ...

This time, they’re sea ... turtles pinged — meaning they surfaced long enough to emit a signal from their tracker — off the North Carolina coast Sunday morning. The most recent one to ping ...

This time, they’re sea turtles ... the 3’4″, 259-pound turtle has spent the last 10 days swimming off of southeastern North Carolina. Pearl’s latest ping off Cape Lookout Sunday morning.