Hauled out Hawaiian green sea turtles snooze on the Makena shore in August last year. While interactions with honu are more common on Maui as the population rebounds, all sea turtles are listed as ...

The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...

Maui Ocean Center Marine Institute Volunteer Lead Responders Alan Espiritu and Bruce Weyermann release a sea turtle patient back into the ocean at Po‘olenalena Beach Park in this undated photo.

When it comes to charismatic ocean species, sea turtles share the spotlight with magnificent marine mammals. However, the seven threatened and endangered species of sea turtles swimming the oceans are ...