Ornate box turtles and their kin face steep challenges in today’s world, but people can help out by raising the deck height ...

The Sedgwick County Zoo shared that the hatching of the McCord's box turtle is "an important milestone for conservation" Getty Images/Westend61 A zoo in Kansas has welcomed the arrival of a rare ...

Scientists at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center were pleasantly surprised when Earl Grey the sea turtle came under their care.

Kemp's ridley sea turtles used to thrive in the Gulf of Mexico, but since the mid-1900s, populations have dwindled so much that they are now the world's most endangered sea turtle species. But now, a ...

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.

Hundreds of turtles are thriving near an outback NSW town, only months after the lake where they live was on the verge of ...

A newly protected Pearl River map turtle faces a 60-year federal recovery effort as officials work to restore habitat, improve water quality, and rebuild populations in Louisiana and Mississippi.

The Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday extended Endangered Species Act protections to the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle, a fierce-looking throwback that’s become prized by collectors. Citing ...

Earlier this year, more than a thousand sea turtles were found cold-stunned along the Texas coast when the air temperature ...

Sea turtles spend most of their lives roaming the planet's oceans, traveling thousands of miles for ideal feeding and breeding grounds.

The season runs from May to August and Caldwell said you can take a few steps to help the hatchlings make it to the ocean ...