The Rarest Turtle on Earth: How a Giant Vanished from a Famous River System

Freshwater extinctions rarely happen overnight, especially in a habitat as large as the Yangtze River. However, it’s still ...
Live Science

Rock climbers in Italy accidentally discovered evidence of an 80-million-year-old sea turtle stampede

Rock climbers in Italy stumbled across evidence of what appears to be a sea turtle stampede that took place nearly 80 million years ago. Now, new research suggests these ancient marine reptiles were ...
AZ Animals

Why Thousands of Turtles Storm Odisha’s Shores—And What Drives Them Back Every Year

Thousands of sea turtles come ashore in Odisha every year in a mass turtle nesting event. Learn what it is and why its ...
The Times of Israel on MSN

Marking a global first, Israel’s new Sea Turtle Rescue Center comes out of its shell

Complex with world's only breeding group to open next month with guided tours that will showcase researchers' efforts to ...
Cayman Compass

How Cayman helped bring green sea turtles back from brink

Cayman has been on the frontlines of a global fight that has brought the green sea turtle back from the brink of extinction.
University of Delaware

Saving Sea Turtles

Animal science alumna coordinates efforts to restore sea turtle populations in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill On April 20, 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig ...
Yahoo

So what's the difference between a turtle, tortoise and terrapin? You may have seen all 3

The St. Johns River has a wonderful and diverse variety of wildlife. The river’s vertebrate wildlife includes all the fish species in the water and birds in the air too. But there are also frogs, ...
Mongabay

Ecuador’s Indigenous Cofán show how to have your turtle and eat it too

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Inside Ecuador’s Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve, an Indigenous Cofán community has since the 1990s carried out an initiative that has contributed to an ...