Amro Hamdoun is a marine biologist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He received his bachelor's degree ...

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Here's everything you should do if you see turtle eggs or babies in the garden.

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Turtle nesting season is upon us, so we thought this was a good time to reveal the secret nesting ritual of sea turtles that few people get to see. The process is far more involved than just digging a ...

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Florida is home to over 100,000 sea turtle nests every year, and, with various species under threat, every nesting season conservationists push to make the environment around them safer. Now, after ...

Between 280 and 200 million years ago, a group of animals evolved which would eventually give rise to mammals, including humans: the therapsids. They were first described more than 150 years ago, ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...