The snapping turtle, famous for its powerful jaws and prehistoric look, is a true living fossil that has inhabited North America for over 90 million years. While often feared, these turtles are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scott Gillingwater, a species at risk biologist at the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority, holds a spiny softshell turtle. ...

Baby sea turtles are back in Florida in record numbers, but it's not time to celebrate just yet. Almost 99% of new turtles are female, which means future generations could be in trouble, Joel Cohen, ...

Few species have their sex determined by temperatures, but for sea turtles it's almost a certainty. However, this natural occurrence could become a biological disadvantage as global temperatures ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This nesting season, researchers will begin to track the long-elusive male sea turtles, which could be dwindling globally. Since ...

A more active weather pattern will be returning to South Florida for much of this week as elevated moisture levels continue to stream in overhead.. High pressu One bowl of gumbo, two meals a day and a ...

Monitoring the populations of one of nature's slower creatures could become faster, thanks to the University of Georgia. UGA researchers have developed an easier, more cost-effective way to learn more ...

Male sea turtles are disappearing from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. A new study of gender ratios found that 99 percent of immature green turtles born in the northern part of the reef are female.

Pouring cool seawater on green turtles’ nests may be a simple way to reverse a severe decline in male births that has been linked to global warming. Over 99 per cent of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) ...

Male loggerhead turtles could entirely disappear from the beaches of Florida – one of the most important nesting grounds in the US – if the temperatures there rise by 2°C, according to a new study.