Update on Fluffy the alligator snapping turtle after he was fished out of Urswick Tarn near Ulverston, Cumbria a year later.

Conservationists are celebrating the arrival of 102 tiny, determined baby turtles, which emerged from their nests and scurried into the sea at a popular beloved east coast beach over the weekend. The ...

NORTH PORT, Fla. — A community wide search in North Port led to the safe return of a missing African spurred tortoise named Ninja, who escaped his outdoor enclosure on Sunday.

Sea turtles are capable of creating GPS-like magnetic maps to guide them back to foraging grounds, and they do a little dance ...

Sea turtles have long mystified researchers by returning to beaches where they were hatched, magnetic signals may be the key, new research finds.

Earth’s magnetic field is detected by species across the animal kingdom, but new research suggests that sea turtles may be ...

Researchers set out to catch baby turtles in the Gulf of Mexico to tag them and learn more about where they go when they scurry to the sea after hatching.

It’s been a long winter, but now birds are singing, trees are budding and Blanding’s turtles are hungry and on the move after winter hibernation. People who spot a Blanding’s ...

Overall, 18 species had populations that were either rising — including the giant sea bass, green sea turtle, and southern ...

Eventually the GPS tags slough off because “the outside of a young turtle’s shell sheds as they grow very quickly,” said ...

Each year at this time, female turtles move from lakes, ponds, wetlands, rivers and streams to nesting areas, where they deposit their eggs in self-excavated nests. Unfortunately, many nesting ...