A new direct flight from Melbourne makes the Maldives so much more accessible. Here’s our expert guide to where to stay.

They've roamed the oceans for more than 100 million years, outlasted the dinosaurs, and can dive nearly 4,000 feet deep — and yet, somehow, sea turtles are still wildly underappreciated. Today, in ...

FLORIDA — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is reminding beachgoers that sea turtles are starting to nest on Florida beaches and ask that visitors follow safety tips to help ...

Note: with 1990's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles returning to theaters for the film's 35th anniversary, we figured now was a great time to republish our retrospective on how the film helped the Turtles ...

This story appears in the June 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. “This is what the end of the world looks like,” says Yusup Kamalov, sweeping his hand toward the scrub-covered desert ...

Sargassum plants are a nuisance on some beaches, but they are a shelter and a feast for a complex and amazing variety of marine life. A clump of sargassum weed the size of a soccer ball drifts near ...