It was only by fate, or luck, that a severely injured snapping turtle was found on a Southwick road by a licensed wildlife ...

Natural resource specialists at NAS Oceana's Dam Neck Annex are protecting the first loggerhead sea turtle nest documented in ...

What a mystery!

A daring sea turtle recovery mission in Australia was just the latest in a long list of sea turtle rescues.

After decades of protection, green sea turtles are rebounding and no longer classified as endangered on the global Red List ...

Sea Turtle: Sea turtles are ancient species, having been around since the time of the dinosaurs. Fossils from the oldest marine turtle date back 120 million years. Females and males are the same size ...

An international team of scientists from the U.S., France, Australia, and Germany, including Senckenberg researcher Uwe Fritz has published the ninth edition of the atlas "Turtles of the World." The ...

As little as 9,000 years ago, a sofa-sized turtle paddled around the Brazilian Amazon. The finding, based on a fossilized jawbone, reveals that some of the most massive turtles ever lived relatively ...

When some turtles swim south in the fall, scores of them get trapped by Cape Cod, where many die of hypothermia. Herb Swanson Cape Cod Bay churns as a frigid gust flicks froth into the air and the ...

The turtle’s shell provides it with a formidable defence and one that is unique in the animal world. No other animal has a structure quite like it, and the bizarre nature of the turtle’s anatomy also ...