Residents say work at Las Cocinas beach threatens turtle nesting, beach access and the Punta de Mita coast as officials face ...

Crude oil pumped from the depths of the Pacific Ocean is flowing for the first time in more than a decade through a pipeline ...

A new study finds high land-based and human-activity related plastic litter at four key olive ridley mass nesting beaches in ...

Four great hammerhead sharks washed up dead on Florida beaches this spring, and some worry humans contributed to the demise ...

A rare type of sea turtle is on the road to recover at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center in Jekyll Island, Georgia. But this reptile is the offspring of a surprising parent duo: a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle ...

Florida is home to over 100,000 sea turtle nests every year. After decades of community education, research and conservation ...

Somewhere in the warm shallows of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, the largest marine protected area in the United ...

Sea turtles spend most of their lives roaming the planet's oceans, traveling thousands of miles for ideal feeding and ...

A new study has found that turtles with jaws strong enough to crack open snails and clams were far more likely to survive the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs. The findings show that when ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - On this week’s Wild Wednesday, Great Plains Zoo Education Specialist Leigh Spencer teaches us about box turtles! “This is a box turtle. His name is Rocky,” said ...

Students, scientists and area residents helped survey turtle diversity at Hornsby Spring on Sunday as part of the Santa Fe River Turtle Project. Eleven freshwater turtle species mingle in its depths, ...

Porkchop, a three-flippered green sea turtle that was rescued nearly a year ago after becoming severely entangled in fishing line and debris in the San Gabriel River, was released back to the wild ...