The Australian Flatback Sea Turtle is a species of sea turtle native to Australia.

Ghost crabs were responsible for the loss of nearly 30% of flatback turtle hatchlings at Thevenard Island, near Onslow on the northwest coast of Australia, according to new research published in ...

Beginning today in Brisbane, Australia, the 29th annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation will feature the flatback sea turtle, native to Australia and probably the least-studied of ...

Sea turtles' life expectancies are hard to pinpoint exactly. What scientists do know, however, is that the reptiles live long.

The first ever professional underwater shots of flatback turtles have been captured off the northern coast of WA. PHOTOGRAPHER DOUG PERRINE and I stand side by side, eyeing the ocean. It’s just plain ...

Sea Turtle Clutches The number of eggs in a nest is called a clutch, and a sea turtle clutch is around 110. Flatback sea turtles lay around 50, but hawksbill sea turtles can lay over 200.

The migratory paths of the little-studied flatback sea turtle have been mapped by a satellite tracking study. An important migratory corridor for Australia’s only endemic sea turtle has been mapped.

Flatback turtle has a real life Nemo moment, finds its way back home A little flatback turtle made his way back to Queensland after washing up on a beach thousands of kilometres from home.

He was among several beach-goers floored to see a fully grown flatback sea turtle making its way up the sand on Wednesday evening.

FLATBACK turtle trackers want to set up Australia's first permanent research station to assess how they are affected by large coastal developments.

A little flatback turtle — said to have had a real life Finding Nemo moment — has been returned back to Queensland waters after it was swept up by a current and washed up thousands of ...

Paleontologists believe the turtle became stranded and died after crawling across a tidal flat. Then it suffered the ultimate indignity of its time.