While many people will be having fancy dinners or opening heart-shaped boxes full of chocolates on Feb. 14, many others — who ...

While many people will be having fancy dinners or opening heart-shaped boxes full of chocolates on Feb. 14, many others — who ...

(Kate Mansfield via AP) Eventually the GPS tags slough off because “the outside of a young turtle’s shell sheds as they grow very quickly,” said Katrina Phillips, a marine ecologist at the ...

Money raised will go toward funding a new turtle habitat ... "Francis came to us very ill with shell rot. He had been kept in a tiny tank with no basking light and almost no room to move around.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Using satellite trackers, scientists have discovered the whereabouts of young sea turtles during a key part of their lives. “We’ve had massive data gaps about the early ...

One female green turtle was struck by a ship just down the road, near the world’s ninth busiest seaport. The impact crushed her shell, carving out a jagged three-pound wedge as big as an iron.

Of the 50 new carcasses of the endangered turtle that beached ashore, 31 were found between Besant Nagar and Neelankarai and were relatively fresh. Trawler nets are death traps for these turtles ...

Some 4,900 yellow-spotted river turtles, also known as tracajás, have been released into the Igapó-Açu River, in Brazil. The threatened species lives in river basins in northern South America ...

Turtles can be found anywhere, from local ponds and the deep, blue sea to an aquarium tank in your bedroom. These aquatic, semiaquatic or terrestrial creatures are easily recognized thanks to ...

The goal of the project was to develop a sensitive and specific portable eDNA water test to detect a known individual of Swinhoe's softshell Turtle, confirmed through a previous capture and ...