In a remarkable stride for endangered species conservation, a group of trafficked turtles has been given a new lease on life.

The Sedgwick County Zoo shared that the hatching of the McCord's box turtle is "an important milestone for conservation" Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The ...

This close-up of the Rafetus swinhoei turtle shows its head and patterned skin. The Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei), the world's largest freshwater turtle and one of the most ...

As recently as August 2024, researchers in Greece documented the non-native Chinese stripe‑necked turtle (Mauremys sinensis) ...

Mass Audubon announced Thursday that 45 cold-stunned sea turtles have washed ashore on Cape Cod beaches over the past t ...

GRAY, Tenn. (WJHL) – Ongoing research at East Tennessee State University’s (ETSU) Gray Fossil Site unearthed a species of horned painted turtles completely new to science, school officials say.

In Alabama, a big discovery was made recently... PETER SCOTT: People call it the intermediate musk turtle or aliflora (ph) musk turtle. KING: ...A turtle. That is Peter Scott. He's a postdoc ...

The hatchlings, rescued from threatened nests, will spend a year at the Aquarium to grow before returning to protected marsh ...

An ancient species, the Yangtze giant softshell turtle, faces extinction with only two known wild survivors. Habitat loss, ...

NORFOLK, Va. (CNN Newsource/WTKR/WKRC) - The U.S. Navy is doing its part to help protect and save endangered sea turtles as they hatch. The crew has been searching the beaches across Virginia to ...

Turtles make a wide variety of sounds. Researcher Gabriel Jorgewich-Cohen recorded surprising vocalizations from 50 turtle species. Listen to 13 of these seldom-heard turtle sounds, from croaking and ...

The Turtle Back Zoo this year joined the relatively few U.S. zoos — perhaps a dozen or fewer among the 250 accredited by the ...