The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commision biologists are requesting the public to help them learn more about the ...

Florida softshell turtles are dangerous to handle and should be left alone. Harassing them risks injury from their sharp ...

Jim Spinale, 91, is a retired science teacher who volunteers at the So. Shore YMCA Nature Center. His snapping turtle shell is a hit with preschoolers ...

A Pennsylvania man was caught with a turtle concealed in his pants when a Transportation Security Administration body scanner triggered an alarm near his groin on Friday, March 7 at Newark Liberty ...

The acoustic receivers pick up pings from the tags, which are about the size of a small matchbox, attached to the turtles’ shells. Thanks to ATAP, there are 285 moored receivers in South African ...

In brief: they've grown thicker shells. The paper documents two sets of field experiments, conducted 20 years apart, measuring the thickness and plasticity in samples of tidal snails. The first ...

The breakthrough came after they attached specially sized geolocator devices to 114 wild sea turtle shells in the waters off the Gulf Coast. This is a standard satellite tag for larger animals.

Green sea turtles are adjusting their nesting habits in response to rising global temperatures. Individual females are laying their eggs earlier in the season to cope with warmer conditions ...

Light gray-green, with a smooth, almost perfectly circular shell and a large, triangular head, it is the smallest species of sea turtle, topping out at two-and-a-half feet long and 70 to 100 pounds.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - An actress known for her roles in multiple Disney productions is apologizing after she recently posted a video gently touching resting turtles in Hawaii. Actress China ...