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

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

Scientists have been closely monitoring a map turtle population after 10 percent died in 2022. They found a surprising ...

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

After decades of global conservation efforts, green sea turtles are rebounding. However, climate change and human pressures ...

A beautifully preserved shelled reptile recovered from a Bavarian limestone deposit helps tell the story of how turtles first took to the seas. The specimen, Solnhofia parsonsi, dates to the Late ...

Turtles are built like tiny tanks—ancient, armored, and famously tough. But in the modern world, that toughness may be their greatest vulnerability. In part two of our turtle two-parter, we dive into ...

Nowadays, John Byrd and his team have no trouble finding the turtles they seek: The researchers simply attach a transmitter ...