Conservationists in Florida saved an endangered loggerhead sea turtle after it was hit by a boat only to find out it was carrying eggs.

Save the turtles Iowans can help turtles by avoiding them in roadways, and when possible, stopping to help move them across the roads. DNR said to always move turtles the same direction they were ...

In this wonderful Instagram post, you get to see a very rare creature. It is a pale yellow or cream sea turtle, and, what’s ...

A red-footed tortoise native to South America has distinctive red scales on it legs. The new exhibition "Turtles" opens June 7 at Fernbank Museum and will display a dozen different species of ...

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s ...

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s collection of nature books and daydream about the creatures within.

The eastern painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) is the most common in our area and is the one most likely to be seen crossing the pavement. However, on the very rarest of occasions, there is another ...

How do sea turtles lay eggs, and how do the hatchlings get to the sea? What happens next? Read more to find out.

In early May, a little-known nonprofit offered a reward unprecedented in China’s conservation circles: 100,000 yuan ($14,000) for a single photo or video of the Yangtze giant softshell, a species so ...

Turtle travels Sunday, June 8 is World Oceans Day and we’re going to look at California’s state sea reptile as well as other turtles in our waters. One or more of the seven species of sea ...

“A turtle’s shell is part of their body and grows with them their entire life,” Arnold explained. It’s made of two pieces fused together, the carapace (top) and the plastron (bottom).