A beginner’s guide to choosing the right turtle or tortoise, with practical details on cost, care needs, enclosure size, and ...

Gramma, the beloved Galápagos tortoise and the San Diego Zoo’s oldest resident, has died at an estimated age of 141. Known ...

Each year, sudden drops in temperature in the Northeast cold-stun hundreds of sea turtles migrating through the area.

Three schoolchildren and a teacher were seriously injured Thursday in a grizzly bear attack in British Columbia, and ...

Researchers taught young loggerhead turtles to associate certain magnetic fields with feeding, prompting a distinctive dance ...

Scientists find baby loggerheads feel Earth’s magnetic field to know where they are, reshaping our understanding of sea ...

Mass Audubon is urging coastal residents and visitors to help stunned turtles that wash ashore as temperatures dip. Why it ...

India's olive ridley turtle numbers appear to have rebounded after years of patchwork efforts to stem their decline. Can it ...

Nicknamed 'Molly,' the turtle beat all odds and survived the hourslong surgery and months of recovery after the tumor ...

Molly, a 170-pound loggerhead turtle, was released back into the ocean after a surgery to remove a life-threatening tumor ...