Category: Turtles & Tortoises Information & News
New York Man Sentenced To Six Months For Possession Of Stolen African Spurred Tortoise
Millennium was stolen in July from the Alley Pond Environmental Center in Douglaston, New York. [...]
Scientists Use Drones To Count Olive Ridley Sea Turtles At Costa Rica’s Ostional National Wildlife Refuge
Drone footage revealed that sea turtle density during peak nesting season was about 2,086 reptiles per square kilometer. [...]
Warming Planet Causes 99 Percent of Raine Island Sea Turtle Hatchlings To Be Female, Study Says
Female green sea turtles on Raine Island outnumber males by 116 to 1. [...]
Galápagos Tortoise Breeds In The Wild For First Time In More Than 100 Years
The Duncan Island giant tortoise is one of the smallest of the Galápagos tortoises. [...]
IUCN And Vietnamese Govt. Lauch Sea Turtle Conservation Project
Quang Ngai beaches on Ly Son Island have been breeding grounds in the past for green sea turtles), hawksbill turtles, and leatherback turtles. [...]
Tortoise Who Almost Died After He Was Hit By Car Doing Much Better
Spike was ran over by a car in June 2016. He has since healed and can walk more than three hours a day. [...]
Research Shows Hatchling Sea Turtles Are Proficient In Energy Conservation
Researchers had expected the disoriented turtles to expend more energy than those collected from the nests, but found that the hatchlings were very pr [...]
New Turtle Species Described In Alabama
The intermediate musk turtle sits morphologically between the stripe neck musk turtle and the loggerhead musk turtle. [...]
Researchers Discover Snail-Eating Turtle Species In Thai Food Market
Malayemys isan, a species new to science, was discovered in a Thai fish market. [...]
Sea Turtle Entangled In $53 Million Floating Cocaine Bales Saved By U.S. Coast Guard
This sea turtle was entangled in bales of cocaine. It was freed by the U.S. Coast Guard. [...]
Endangered Asian Giant Softshell Turtle Nest Found In Cambodia
The Asian giant softshell turtle is currently listed as endangered by the IUCN as it has largely disappeared in much of its natural range. [...]
Snapping Turtle At Southern Vermont Natural History Museum In Need Of Bigger Enclosure
A GoFundMe has been launched for Basil the snapping turtle. [...]
More Than 6,000 Indian Star Tortoises Seized From Wildlife Traffickers in 2017
Even though Indian star tortoises are widely captive bred for the pet trade, wild caught specimens are still illegally collected. [...]
Spotted Turtle At Risk Of Disappearing In Rhode Island
A three year study turned up just 50 spotted turtles out of 2,000 turtles caught. [...]
Texas Tortoise From Houston Makes Its Way To Abilene
A Texas Parks and Wildlife biologist needed to rehome a Texas tortoise and was successful in doing so. [...]
Pet Reptile Product Sales Reach $383 Million In 2016
Has the reptile hobby gone mainstream? [...]
Loggerhead Sea Turtle Gets 3D Printed Shell Brace
The loggerhead turtle had a gaping hole in its shell. 3D printer technology was used to create a brace to cover it. [...]
Man Pleads Guilty To Trafficking Box Turtles
Byron Paul Pitre was convicted, sentenced to three years probation, and fined $2,500. [...]
Texas Biologist Hopes To Move Endangered Texas Tortoises To Abilene Zoo
The Texas tortoise is the only native tortoise in Texas. [...]
Stranded Olive Ridley Turtle Found On Oregon Beach
The stranded olive ridley sea turtle had a body temperature of 59 degrees Fahrenheit. A temperature of 75 degrees Fahrenheit is considered normal. [...]
Dog Gets Stuck In Sulcata Tortoise Burrow
It took firefighters about four hours to safely remove the dog from the burrow. [...]
2017 Green Sea Turtle Nestings In Florida Break Record
Florida recorded 39,000 green sea turtle nests during the 2017 nesting season. [...]
Texas Agrees To Proposed Rule To Ban Unlimited Commercial Trapping Of Wild Turtles
It is hoped the unlimited collection of wild turtles is stopped or curtailed in Texas. [...]
Alligator Snapping Turtles Not Seen In Illinois in 30 Years Reappear In The Wild
The last time an alligator snapping turtle was seen in the wild in the state of Illinois was back in 1984.
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