Turtles have been around for 200 million years—outliving dinosaurs, surviving ice ages, and basically minding their own ...

When we picture sea turtles in the wild, it's easy to envision them as armored warriors—their hard, resilient shells serving ...

You wouldn’t normally see the words “turtle” and “lightning-fast” in the same sentence, but common snapping turtles have ...

A box turtle shell found on campus has unveiled a tapestry of University of Delaware connections dating back more than half a century. The turtle, between 60 and 70 years old when he died, walked the ...

Would you shell out a few extra bucks every year to help rescue wild turtles? A bill in the state legislature would create a ...

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s ...

State officials say they are struggling to verify a photograph posted on a Hawai’i-based Facebook page that shows a sea turtle with the top half of its shell missing.

Anna Maria Island beaches contain more than 400 sea turtle nests while two early nests hatched out on July 3. Yes, it’s hatch ...

Minnesota summers means turtles are on the move, and a new app helps them cross roads safely. "I moved into a house at the ...

A western painted turtle has been returned home to Still Pond in Kelowna's Wilden community. The small creature had been in ...

A sea turtle's shell is a complex masterpiece, made up of two parts: the carapace (top) and the plastron (bottom), both covered in scutes -- tough keratin plates tightly attached to the bone. The ...