Meet Jonathan, the Seychelles giant tortoise estimated to be at least 194 years old and the oldest known living land animal ...

MOUNT VERNON, Iowa (KCRG) - Researchers at Cornell College are turning to an unlikely source to better understand the health of Iowa’s waterways: turtles. As part of the college’s Summer Research ...

North America’s largest publicly viewable collection of freshwater turtles is a little bit bigger and even more adorable ...

Tom Emery Contributing Writer Saturday, May 23 is World Turtle Day, and there are plenty of reasons to celebrate in Illinois.

The common snapping turtle is a species that few Pennsylvanians give a second thought, unless they see one crossing the road or digging in their flower bed. This is because, outside the breeding ...

Despite their remoteness and accelerating vanishing act, they play a key role. An important lifeline has now arrived to pay ...

Why did the turtle cross the road?” “To get to the Shell station,” is how one version of the joke goes. The reality is turtles cross roads all of the time. And judging by the evidence of the failure ...

The Outer Banks just had its best leatherback year on record – four nests of the giant endangered turtle, topping the whole previous decade. The post Giant Endangered Sea Turtles Smash Nesting Record ...

A massive 250-lb. loggerhead sea turtle found deep in a Georgia marsh was rescued by wildlife officials and volunteers, then ...

There’s no shortage of beaches for Corpus Christi visitors to enjoy. From remote, undeveloped federal lands to easily accessible parks with paved parking lots, there’s a perfe ...

South Korea plans to designate a rare dinosaur skeleton, an ancient turtle fossil and coastal tafoni as protected Natural ...

Here's everything you should do if you see turtle eggs or babies in the garden.