PHOENIX – Nearly three years after it won endangered species status, the Sonoyta mud turtle was granted 12.3 acres of protected habitat this week – but supporters worry that the habitat may no longer ...

The Turtle Bank in South Carolina is sheltering Asia’s most threatened turtles. Poaching and habitat loss pushed them to the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The endangered Western Pond Turtle has found an ally in the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. The WDFW teamed up with others, such as the Oregon Zoo, to create a ...

With his age estimated at about 90, Cedar has weathered many of life's battles. But the craggy snapping turtle bears scars of what is surely his greatest test: large, wide gashes from a boat propellor ...

VALENTINE, Neb. (AP) - The young turtle smiled, though he was, perhaps, having a rough day. Maybe he thought he was being harassed by a strange two-legged giant, who raised a big finger to count the ...

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 ...

CANCÚN, Mexico — As our flight crossed over the Yucatán shoreline to approach the Cancún airport, we hardly could have known that we would have a rendezvous later that day with an inhabitant of the ...