Brevard Zoo secured $1.75 million in federal funding for its new sea turtle care complex, part of the planned $140 million ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will add new protections for a rare turtle whose ridged shell looks like a topographic map, with the goal of keeping it from going extinct. The federal agency has ...

A performance of Moss Anthology#5 for Buglisi Dance Theatre (left). Ruby, an endangered Burmese roofed turtle who lives at a turtle sanctuary in New Jersey (right). Hisae Aihara/Martin Broen Get the ...

Late last month, record-low temperatures cooled down the waters of the Gulf and the Atlantic significantly, causing almost ...

The study provides new insights into the functions of ancestral cortices but also raises fundamental questions about how and when key neural computations evolved in turtles.

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

When Ann Berry Somers was 7 years old and growing up in North Carolina, she encountered a box turtle on a path. She picked up the small reptile and looked into its eyes. Instead of retreating into its ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Swimming in two plastic bins inside a brightly lit and sterile quarantine room at a Rhode Island zoo, 16 quarter-sized turtle hatchlings represent a growing worry for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recovery of this softshell turtle species now requires working with a global population of only two or possibly three known ...

In the back of a large SUV, 15 small sea turtles wrapped in wet towels and packed in individual banana boxes awaited their new lease on life Thursday, preparing to swim off the Louisiana coast after ...