As temperatures rise, the turtle nesting season is beginning. There are several hundred species of turtles, but many of them ...

May and June are prime months for turtles to cross roads in search of places to lay their eggs, and many end up getting ...

Wildlife biologist Brittany Clemans explains how the NOAA uses shell etchings to track turtle migration and how fellow turtle ...

The origin of turtles has always been a bit of a puzzle for scientists who study the evolution of animals. To this day, where ...

Sometime between 5.5 and 5.6 million years ago, two shell crushers squared off in the languid currents of an ancient Florida river. The fossils they left behind, discovered by paleontologists at the ...

Strange marks on Hawaiian green sea turtles were thought to be graffiti. Scientists actually mark the turtles for tracking.

Give Turtles a Brake!

Rare sea turtle seen nesting in Florida for first time ever. 5 reasons species' range may be expanding beyond Brazil, ...

Early Grey, a rare hybrid turtle rescued from Cape Cod beach and nursed to health at Georgia Sea Turtle Center, returned to ...

Sea turtles flock to Florida beaches each summer to dig giant holes, fill them with hundreds of eggs, cover the eggs and then ...

Western Mass. is home to the largest known local population of eastern box turtles in this part of the state.