What’s in a name? When it comes to sea turtles, it turns out, a pretty distinguishing trait. “The animal kingdom is filled ...

What does one man do when a softshell turtle invades his koi pond? Watch the fascinating video as he guides the turtle back ...

In April 2021, when the Vennaru River, a tributary of the Cauvery, was at its ebb under the summer sun, a team of researchers ...

A Pennsylvania man reportedly missed his flight after being caught with a live turtle hidden in his pants. The discovery was ...

In 2023 more than 52,000 sea turtle nests were counted on the beaches of Florida´s Space Coast. From the northernmost point of the Canaveral National Seashore to the Beaches of the Sebastian Inlet in ...

After years of steady gains, a decades-long conservation program dedicated to the Kemp's ridley hits rough seas ...

Florida softshell turtles are large turtles with skin covering their shell. They are dark brown to olive green colored and have bumps behind their head. Their webbed feet and tubular nostrils help ...

Green turtles are back to lay eggs here, but the rapidly increasing human activity along the beach is posing a serious threat ...

Open wounds should be protected and mobile shell areas stabilized. If injuries are confined to the upper carapace only, and there is no evidence of head trauma, then the turtle can be placed into ...

The turtles have an olive green to brown shell that is patterned with yellow ... behind their eyes but some may have an all-black head.” These turtles can live for up to 50 years in captivity.

Conservation foundations on the Indonesian island of Bali raised concerns in February over the volume of live sea turtles seized from traffickers so far this year. “The number of turtles smuggled ...