Last summer I reported on the birth of Thelma and Louise, a two-headed Texas river cooter (Pseudemys texana) that came into the world at the San Antonio Zoo in Texas. Well, it is with great sadness that the zoo reported…
A tortoise plays with a dog's ball, and the dog doesn't like it.
The sword was successfully removed from the sea turtle and sent to a lab for analysis.
NOAA and Waikiki Aquarium to track Hawaiian green sea turtles.
Chinese poachers have been increasingly plying Philippine waters in defiance of UN mandated economic zones.
Owner turns to Go Fund Me to raise funds for tortoise's surgery.
Two fossil pieces collected more than 160 years apart are from the same sea turtle, Atlantochelys mortoni.
Campaign underway to bolster populations of Australia's Mary River turtle.
Neonate loggerhead sea turtles shelter in Sargassum and drift with the North Atlantic Subtropical gyre.
Florida has the most sea turtle nesting sites in the United States.
Green tree pythons and emerald tree boas can be kept as pets.
Manú National Park in Peru is home to 287 species of reptiles and amphibians.
Tea Party candidate likens Mitch McConnell to Cecil the Tortoise.
The tortoises were previously kept as pets and cannot be returned to the wild.
Three rehabilitated sea turtles were released by Sea Turtles 911.
The Blanding's turtle is on the CITES list of protected species.
Center for Biological Diversity is suing USFWS to get protections for these southwestern U.S. herps.
It is hoped that GPS data will be used by fisheries to avoid leatherback turtle bycatch.
The Blanding's turtle enjoys more protections in Canada.
California's Department of Fish and Wildlife lacks resources to enforce turtle ban law.
Petition launched on MoveOn.org to stop a federal plan to euthanize remaining tortoises.
Scientists unsure how virus infected the turtles.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration will no longer destroy viable turtle eggs and small turtles.
The leatherback sea turtle rescue was in violation of the Endangered Species Act.
