While looking for something to eat, the juveniles accidentally leave their traditional hunting areas and catch a ride on the Humboldt current which flows northwest towards Costa Rica ... into the ...

But the beach is in an area of the country far away from the tourist zone, making it a haven for both narco-crime and poachers looking to make a profit. In Costa Rica, turtle eggs are considered a ...

Ostional Wildlife Refuge in Guanacaste hosts tens of thousands of the Olive Ridley Sea turtles and offers guided evening tours. At times, the number of turtles can be unbelievable on the beaches, with ...

I thought I was moving to Costa Rica ... to be looking for the smaller, infertile eggs, but I lose focus and realize that at some point I must of left the discovery channel and entered into ...

It’s not quite dawn when my tour group is allowed to step onto ... Costa Rica expert Marco Fallas, teamed up with Playa Ostional guide Maria Aviles to introduce us to the ways of sea turtles.

A flood of tourists, taking selfies and using camera flashes, crowded a beach in Costa Rica and prevented sea turtles from laying ... caused several to turn back into the ocean without completing ...

Costa Rica, where more sea turtles nest – most returning to the beach where they were born – than anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere. More than 80,000 green sea turtles lumber up onto the ...