Burlington Parks and Recreation is issuing a turtle alert and putting up fencing around turtle nests in the sand at North ...

We would've stayed far away, too.

Florida State University researchers studying male green sea turtles off the coast of Brazil have discovered two distinct ...

To figure out why Eastern box turtle numbers are dropping across Virginia, Smithsonian researchers are turning to some surprisingly low-tech tricks.

A turtle was brutally abused and left to die on Long Island until it was rescued by a local animal agency, officials said. The turtle was trapped inside a cage that had been secured with zip ties and ...

Sea Turtle: Sea turtles are ancient species, having been around since the time of the dinosaurs. Fossils from the oldest marine turtle date back 120 million years. Females and males are the same size ...

We'd be afraid of walking rocks, too!

A reputation for unintelligence is belied by its foraging tricks and its ability to run mazes. But it faces serious population declines.

An international team of scientists from the U.S., France, Australia, and Germany, including Senckenberg researcher Uwe Fritz has published the ninth edition of the atlas "Turtles of the World." The ...

Archaeologists excavating İn Cave at Gedikkaya Hill in northwestern Turkey have uncovered approximately 25 turtle figurines, ...

Hans-Dieter Sues | Curator, Paleontology, National Museum of Natural History In a fit of pique, according to one of Aesop's fables, the god Hermes made the animal carry its house forever on its back.