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 ...

This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — until a changing planet proved too much for even the largest ...

The Trump administration aims to remove degradation of habitat from its definition of "harm" to endangered species, proposing Wednesday a rule change that would open the door to human activity in ...

Painted turtles sunning themselves in a pond. Why are sea turtles endangered? Discover the human impact on North American turtles and learn about the steps we can take to help. When I was young, my ...

Each morning during sea turtle nesting season, scientists and citizen volunteers with Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota comb 35 miles of shoreline looking for turtle tracks from mothers coming ashore ...

Various species of sea turtles are found in warm and temperate seas throughout the world and can also be viewed nearby at SeaWorld San Diego at the newly enhanced and upgraded Turtle Reef habitat.

Dr. Tres Clarke, a veterinarian for the Audubon Nature Institute, holds an endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle off the coast of Louisiana, Thursday on Jan. 29, 2015. A nest of endangered sea turtle ...

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 ...

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 ...