Fiona tells PEOPLE how her red-eared slider Izzie laying a single egg at nearly 40 felt “extra special,” even as the viral ...

An underpass installed beneath a busy stretch of road in Eliot a few years ago has led to ‘a substantial reduction in turtle ...

Scientists have discovered that turtles possess advanced visual processing abilities once thought to be unique to mammals.

Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an ...

In Cape Verde, conservation has boosted the sea turtle population 100-fold — but the male-female balance is way off.

A young loggerhead turtle washed up on a beach after being cold-stunned was rescued and issued an airline ticket to a sanctuary in Britain.

A new study from the School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics reveals a surprising insight into the operation of the ancestral brain: the visual cortex of turtles is capable of detecting ...

After a rare February cold snap turned Florida’s usually balmy waters into a chilly shock, Clearwater Marine Aquarium staff are hustling to nurse several sea turtles back to health. The reptiles ...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Cheers rose from a bundled-up crowd as a loggerhead sea turtle that survived a likely shark attack trundled back into the ocean after months of rehabilitation in Florida, ...

With an evolutionary history of more than 200 million years, turtles and tortoises have outlived dinosaurs and persisted on ...