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Five species of sea turtle nest along Florida beaches, including leatherbacks, green sea turtles, loggerheads, Kemp's ridley and hawksbill. After the Fl...

Bundaberg scientists from the Burnett Mary Regional Group (BMRG) have discovered critically endangered white-throated snapping turtle in Baffle Creek for t...

With prospects for wild four-eyed turtle so dire, the Tennessee Aquarium is celebrating the recent hatching of two four-eyed turtles in its Turtle Nursery....

The dead Swinhoe's softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) was found at Dong Mo Lake. There are currently four specimens of its kind in existence, with two...

The spy cam video already has over 400K views to date on YouTube. The turtle robot followed by thousands of likes. And no wonder, as filming up so close to...

There is a new study out about how turtles and other amphibious species previously thought to be mute actually vocalize with each other. For example, turtl...

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resource (SCDN) is ramping up its efforts to monitor and manage Diamondback Terrapin Turtle. According to SCDNR...

The National Aquarium returned 25 juvenile sea turtles to their ocean home at the end of February following successful rehabilitation. The 13 Kemp’s rid...

The North Carolina Aquariums were excited to release more than 100 rehabilitated cold-stunned sea turtles during winter stranding events. Included in the 1...

The Niagara County Industrial Development Agency announced an award of $17,000 toward the project through the Cataract Tourism Fund. Other funding was prov...

An impressive video has gone viral on the internet in the last days. In a new pioneering way, researchers were able to measure the population of green sea ...

Using samples from NOAA Fisheries’ tissue library, scientists have sequenced the sea turtle genomes of endangered leatherback and green sea turtles. "Se...

Six Critically Endangered Madagascar big-headed turtles (Erymnochelys madagascariensis), have hatched at Durrell’s Jersey Zoo for the first time. The ju...

Once-in-a-lifetime photo captures butterfly drinking turtle tears. The turtle's tears contain salt, specifically sodium, an important mineral that is scant...

Turtles aren’t known for their parental instincts, but the arrau is an exception. The discovery is spurring a race to save the chatty species. Known loc...

New footage shows hundreds of thousands of baby giant South American river turtles hatching. The turtles began hatching in mid-December and continued into ...

The juvenile loggerhead turtle named Ruth can come back to the ocean this September, after 7 months being treated for hypothermia. In February, rescuers...

Many American turtle species are in trouble due to poaching as illegal trafficking poses serious conservation concerns for native America's turtles. "It...

Chinese box turtle is known throughout herpetology and herpetoculture circles simply as “flavos,” which is an abbreviated version of their species name Cuo...

Existe-t-il une communication sonore chez les reptiles? Une équipe internationale a mis en évidence des échanges sonores chez 50 espèces de tortues. Rea...

Do turtles talk? What about other lesser-known vertebrates such as tuataras, caecilians and lungfish? The answer is yes, according to a new paper in Nat...

At the start of every summer, the western pond turtles (Actinemys marmorata) are collected as eggs from wild nests and transported to Woodland Park Zoo, wh...

Scientists uncovered interesting facts of reproductive ecology of southern spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata) that will help the species conservation. Rea...

Two gigantic Aldabra tortoises (Aldabrachelys gigantea) named Othello and Ray are considered to be the oldest animals at the St. Louis Zoo. The reptiles...

A turtle nest of endangered sea turtle eggs was found on the beachside of Galveston Island State Park last week — the first nest found at the park in over ...
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