Hey turtles, how are you? The 2026 State of the World's Sea Turtles report is here full of great stories about your favorite reptiles, including one on pacific leatherback conservation co-authored by Upwell.

Which turtle is the father? Demographic data on breeding males are limited due to their relative inaccessibility, but new research presents a novel approach to characterize breeding males by genotyping sperm trapped in an egg’s perivitelline membrane.

What do sea turtles do all day? A research team in the Bahamas deployed camera tags on 58 juvenile green turtles to learn more about diving behavior. Some of the video clips that the turtles recorded can be seen in this article from BBC Wildlife Magazine.

How do sea turtles use the North Atlantic? Upwell’s collaborators at Portugal’s University of the Azores and Institute of Marine Research created a model that offers a first basin-scale prediction of the seasonal distribution of juvenile loggerheads in the North-Atlantic, which shows consistency with stranding and bycatch data in the basin.