The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will add new protections for a rare turtle whose ridged shell looks like a topographic map, with the goal of keeping it from going extinct. The federal agency has ...

Shell Week will run from June 8th to June 16th, and to commemorate the week, the Royal Carribean Group and World Wildlife Fund have created a bracket-style tournament to name the most popular sea ...

The shells of chelonians—think turtles, tortoises, and sea turtles—grow in layers, keeping a time-stamped record of environmental conditions. Uranium has shown up in the layers of turtles’ and ...

Alligator snapping turtles have a hard, armor-like shell and a sharp beak. A 100-year-old giant alligator snapping turtle is at large after mysteriously disappearing somewhere along Interstate 40 in ...

On a warm, sunny morning in late August, a few dozen people assemble beside a barn in northern New Jersey. It’s a festive gathering because today is a homecoming. "Getting animals back in the wild is ...

CONTRACTORS are shying away from bidding to build an onshore gas plant for operator Chevron's Area A gas management project off Angola because of the proximity of endangered sea turtles. The project ...

The loggerhead turtle named Molly underwent a three-hour-long operation to remove her massive neck tumor ...

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