Category: Turtles & Tortoises Information & News
Florida Turtle Stuck In Plastic Bag Saved By Melbourne City Worker
Plastic bags and plastic pollution kills and maims hundreds of thousands of reptiles and other animals every year. [...]
Man Wanted In Connection With Stealing Baby Hermann’s Tortoise In Canada
The Hermann’s tortoise is valued at around $520 and the store owner wants in back. [...]
Dead Leatherback Turtle Found On New England Beach Died From Trio Of Human Hazards
Leatherback sea turtles primarily eat jellyfish and plastic tends to look like jellyfish in the ocean. [...]
Interesting Facts About Reptiles
There are still new and interesting facts to uncover about reptiles. [...]
This Prehistoric Turtle Had A Nose Only A Mother Could Love
Arvinachelys goldeni, or Miss Piggy was discovered in southern Utah. [...]
New Galapagos Tortoise Species Discovered And Described
There are two species of Galapagos tortoise on Santa Cruz Island. [...]
Philippine Authorities Arrest 3 For Possessing Threatened Turtles
The suspects allegedly had Palawan forest turtles, Asian leaf turtles and Southeast Asian box turtles in their possession. [...]
Tortoise Appearance On Walking Dead
The hapless tortoise walks into the path of Enid [...]
Russians Sentenced To 15 Months In Singapore Prison For Smuggling Endangered Pond Turtles
27 of the 206 pond turtles have since died. [...]
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 [...]
