Every October, volunteers gather at the Marina at White Lake, to clutch garbage bags, protective gloves and gripper tongs.

Last week, rough waves and heavy winds pushed dense sargassum seaweed onto Florida beaches, trapping hundreds of sea turtle ...

AGAWAM — Mobie sniffed out three eastern box turtles Wednesday morning, hours before students arrived for Eversource’s wildlife detection and protection training program. Two of the turtles were in a ...

SNAPPING TURTLES are a common reptile in Iowa. Their scientific name is Chelydrda serpentina. Adults have a big head, a long ...

What they didn’t expect was that it was a Fly River turtle, a very rare, endangered species that dates back 70 million years.

The two extant clades of turtles, Pleurodira and Cryptodira, can be distinguished by the fact that the pelvic elements of pleurodire turtles are extensively sutured to both the carapace and plastron ...