The sea turtles were returned home to the Gulf after being rescued last weekend from cold-stunning conditions, under which turtles stop feeding, stop swimming and float to the surface.

Sea turtles can become cold-stunned when water temperature drops below 50° Fahrenheit. Cold-stunning, which can be ...

On New Year’s Day, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) released 88 olive ridley turtle hatchlings in Sitio Boac, Barangay Iriron, Calintaan in Occidental Mindoro. The nest of ...

The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach opens a new rehabilitation tank for rescued green sea turtles. Visitors can now see ...

Iowa resident Laurie Nielson watched in awe Thursday as 300 sea turtles were released into the Gulf from South Padre Island.

Each morning during sea turtle nesting season, scientists and citizen volunteers with Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota comb 35 miles of shoreline looking for turtle tracks from mothers coming ashore ...

Freshwater extinctions rarely happen overnight, especially in a habitat as large as the Yangtze River. However, it’s still possible for a species to dwindle, and dwindle enough so that only a few ...

Once nearly extinct, Southern California's population of green sea turtles is exploding, and many of them are making their home in the San Gabriel River. It’s one of the most remarkable animal ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will add new protections for a rare turtle whose ridged shell looks like a topographic map, with the goal of keeping it from going extinct. The federal agency has ...

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

When Ann Berry Somers was 7 years old and growing up in North Carolina, she encountered a box turtle on a path. She picked up the small reptile and looked into its eyes. Instead of retreating into its ...