Once or twice a month during Costa Rica’s rainy season, female olive ridley sea turtles come ashore by the tens of thousands and lay eggs in a mass nesting event known as an arribada.

During an arribada, females take over entire portions of beaches, lugging their big bodies through the sand with their flippers until they find a satisfying spot to lay their eggs. Even more ...

An active start of the nesting season begins for endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtles along the Texas Gulf Coast.

In honor of the first Kemp's ridley turtle nests found at the national seashore last month, the park raised its turtle flag, also known as the arribada flag, which will fly for the remainder of the ...

Locals call it the arribada, Spanish for “arrival”: the magical days and nights when tens of thousands of sea turtles come ashore on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast to lay millions of eggs.

This year, the arribada has been delayed by nearly a month due to untimely rain and rough sea. Divisional forest officer (DFO ...

Researchers hail the arribada as one of the most remarkable mass activities in the animal kingdom — even though many mysteries about how these turtles manage the feat, year after year ...

Mangaluru: One of the major revenue earners for a coastal district, apart from all the other attractions, is its beaches.

Dr Basudev Tripathy, scientist, ZSI-Pune, described the findings as a matter of concern for the future of Olive Ridley Arribada (mass nesting that recently started at Gahirmatha). Turtle nesting ...