A 260 million-year-old fossil has been determined to be the oldest ancestor of turtles found to date, revealing something about the reptile's mysterious past. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, ...

A recent tragedy occurred in Indian River County, Florida when an elderly man tried to save a turtle. The reptile was slowly creeping across I-95 when an 87-year-old Vermont native attempted to help ...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — It’s not unusual for rocks and other debris to crash through a windshield and injure a driver or passenger — but a turtle? A 71-year-old woman riding with her daughter on ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is hoping to give a claw up to one of Iowa’s most elusive — and most threatened — turtle species by head-starting two Blanding’s turtle hatchlings at the ...

A massive 170lb loggerhead sea turtle is back home in the Florida Keys water after surviving a life-threatening tumor inches ...