Category: Turtles & Tortoises Information & News
Can You Keep A Radiated Tortoise With A Malagasy Tree Boa? No, You Can't
The Memphis Zoo tried to create a mixed species environment. [...]
RIP: Capone, the Resident Alligator Snapping Turtle At the Cincinatti Zoo
Capone was a fan favorite at the zoo because he was so charismatic. [...]
How Do You Collect Sea Turtle Poop? You Build a Giant “Nappy”
Australian researchers built a device out of a sun shirt, some velcro and a custom poop collector to collect poop samples. [...]
Researchers Discover Hawksbill Sea Turtles Are Biofluorescent
Divers were shooting biofluorescent corals when a Hawksbill sea turtle swam into the light and revealed it too was biofluorescent. [...]
Tourists Disrupt Sea Turtle Nestings In Costa Rica
Costa Rican Govt. upset that tourists disrupted sea turtle nesting with selfies and other bad behavior. [...]
The World’s Fastest Tortoise? He Sprints At 0.28 Meters Per Second
Bertie smashed the previous record that stood for nearly 40 years. [...]
The Oldest Sea Turtle Fossil Is 25 Million Years Older Than Previous Fossil
Desmatochelys padillai is 120 million-years-old. [...]
Shell-less Eunotosaurus africanus Is Oldest Known Turtle To Date
Eunotosaurus africanus roamed the earth 260 million years ago during the Permian Period [...]
Do You Want To Name An Injured Sea Turtle?
Do you want to help name a sea turtle that has been recuperating from its injuries at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center? A Kemp’s Ridley sea tu [...]
Tennessee Aquarium Hatches 5 Endangered Beal’s-eyed Turtles
Beal’s-eyed turtles in the wild have declined rapidly in the last 15 years. [...]
40 Desert Tortoises Up For Adoption In Arizona
The Arizona Game and Fish Department announced that it has more than 40 desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) available for adoption, provided you mee [...]
Video: Researchers Remove Plastic Drinking Straw From Sea Turtle’s Nostril
The world's oceans aren't a trash dump. [...]
Researchers Find Two Albino Green Sea Turtle Hatchlings In Mozambique
Albino green sea turtles are not common, though several have surfaced around the world over the years. [...]
Turtle Hospital Of Florida Releases Aaron The Loggerhead Sea Turtle
The Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Fla. has released Aaron, a sub-adult loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) that was brought to the rescue [...]
More Than 4,000 Critically Endangered Palawan Forest Turtles Rescued In The Philippines
Conservationists in the Philippines rescued 3,831 Palawan forest turtles (Siebenrockiella leytensis), 160 Asian leaf turtles (Cyclemys dentata) and 25 [...]
Florida Man Cited For Possessing Two Hatchling Loggerhead Sea Turtles
Hatchling sea turtles are cute and all but trying to keep them in a fish tank is not cool. That is the story coming out of the Florida Fish and W [...]
GoPro Sea Turtle Footage Of The Great Barrier Reef
The World Wildlife Fund-Australia and GoPro attached a GoPro video camera onto the shell of a green sea turtle in an effort to find out how pollution [...]
Tortoise Serves As Therapy Pet At Senior Care Facility
About two years ago, a tortoise was found on the roadside. It has been speculated that he was someone’s pet and was abandoned and that he’ [...]
How Did Turtles Get Their Shells?
How did the turtle get its shell? That has been an age old question for decades, but now researchers have discovered the fossilized remains of what th [...]
San Diego Zoo’s Galapagos Tortoise, Speed, Dies At 150+Years
One of the oldest Galapagos tortoises (Chelonoidis nigra) in captivity has died. Speed, who was brought to the San Diego Zoo in 1933 was es [...]
Painted Turtle’s Shell Reattached With Epoxy And Zip Ties
A painted turtle (Chrysemys picta ssp. and C. dorsalis) that was hit by a car gets a second lease on life as the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center a [...]
Tortoise In England Outfitted With Hot Wheels To Aid Walking
A tortoise in Withywood, Bristol, England that had to have one of his hind legs surgically removed because of an accident is back in the saddle as the [...]
Coastguardsmen Untangle Two Sea Turtles Caught In Fishing Line Off Central America
Coastguardsmen on the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton out of Alameda, Calif. were on patrol looking for drug runners when they happened upon a pair of sea [...]
Scientists Try To Impregnate Last Yangtze Giant Softshell Turtle Known To Exist
Scientists say that the Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) is just a few deaths away from extinction if the only known female in the wo [...]
