Category: Turtles & Tortoises Information & News
California’s Desert Tortoise Gains 11 Square Miles Of Habitat
The desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) in California has had 11 square miles of habitat on private land set aside in an effort to offset the i [...]
Sulcata Tortoise And Pit Bull Are Best Friends
Looks like man’s best friend has found a new best friend in an 8-year-old Sulcata tortoise named Sheldon. Sheldon and his new best friend, Dolly, a fe [...]
20 Critically Endangered Ploughshare Tortoises Released On Madagascar
Jersey’s Durell Conservation Trust in Europe has released 20 ploughshare tortoises (Astrochelys ynophora) on Madagascar in hopes of bolstering their p [...]
Rat Eradication Effort Pays Dividends For Galapagos Island Tortoises
Scientists in 2012 started a program to cover 18 square kilometers of Pinzón Island in the Galapagos Island chain with poisoned rat bait in an [...]
Suspects In Murder Of Costa Rican Sea Turtle Activist Acquitted
Seven men who were charged with the May 2013 murder of Costa Rican sea turtle activist Jairo Mora Sandoval were acquitted of the crime January 26. The [...]
Scientists To Study Lesser Known Flatback Sea Turtle
The Australian flatback sea turtle (Natator depressus) is a tough little chelonian that is native only to Australian waters, Papua New Guinea and cert [...]
Tortoise Found On Hawaii Man’s Driveway
An Oahu man found a tortoise in his driveway in a Kaneohe neighborhood and in spite of calls to the Honolulu Zoo, the Department of Land and Natural R [...]
Do You Wanna Build A. . . Snow Sea Turtle?
When I was a kid growing up in Utah we built snowmen during our times off from school. My older sister always led the charge and I built the head, com [...]
Vet Attaches Lego Wheels Onto Tortoise to Help it Walk
What happens when a juvenile spur-thighed tortoise can’t use its hind legs due to metabolic bone disease? You equip it with a set of wheels, as a Germ [...]
Bad News For Australia’s White-Throated Snapping Turtle
Australia’s white-throated snapping turtle (Elseya albagula) is in danger of becoming extinct due in part to the construction of dams as we [...]
Minneapolis May Lift Pet Reptile Ban
Keeping reptiles in Minneapolis, Minnesota is currently against the law, but that may change as the city will review its “wild animal code&rdquo [...]
Hundreds Of Juvenile Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles Stranded On Cape Cod
The Massachusetts Audobon Society and the New England Aquarium have been inundated in the last month with nearly 200 juvenile Kemp’s ridley (Lep [...]
Turtles More Closely Related To Birds Than Lizards And Snakes, Researchers Say
According to California Academy of Sciences and Cal State Fullerton researchers, turtles are more closely related to birds, crocodiles, and dinosaurs [...]
Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle Nests Down Dramatically In Gulf of Mexico
Scientists speaking Nov. 19 at the Second International Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle Symposium in Texas have said that the Kemp’s ridley sea tur [...]
Ancient Giant Tortoise Discovered In What Is Now Madrid, Spain
A giant tortoise that lived between 20 million and 2 million years ago, that was larger than the tortoises of the Galapagos Islands was discovered by [...]
50 Year Captive Breeding Of Española Galapagos Tortoise Deemed A Success
The Galapagos tortoise of Española island (Chelonoidis hoodensis) was nearly wiped out by whalers. [...]
USFWS Seeks Comment On CITES Protections For Four Native U.S. Turtles
The common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) and three other U.S. turtles would be given more protections under a proposed USFWS rule. [...]
This Tortoise Has Eaten The Strangest Thing
Snakes eating carpet and frogs eating substrate are nothing new, but a sulcata tortoise eating a charm? And a sea turtle charm at that? Now that is so [...]
8-Year-Old Chinese Boy Caught Smuggling His Pet Turtle At Airport
When you read about smuggling in China, it is usually on a grand scale involving endangered species. In this case, it was a mere love of a pet that ca [...]
Turtles Can Talk To Each Other
Turtle can talk to each other, and not just the teenage mutant ninja kind, as scientists in Brazil have successfully recorded giant South American riv [...]
Leatherback Turtle Survives Billfish Impalement
The sword was successfully removed from the sea turtle and sent to a lab for analysis. [...]
Where Do Baby Hawaiian Sea Turtles Go?
NOAA and Waikiki Aquarium to track Hawaiian green sea turtles. [...]
Bones Found 160 Years Apart Reveals Huge Ancient Sea Turtle
Two fossil pieces collected more than 160 years apart are from the same sea turtle, Atlantochelys mortoni.
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Wildlife Queensland Launches Campaign to Save Mary River Turtle Hatchlings
Campaign underway to bolster populations of Australia's Mary River turtle. [...]
