Did you know that many animals have much longer lifespans than humans? Greenland sharks, bowhead whales, koi, and red sea urchins may all live hundreds of years. A clam called the ocean quahog has ...

The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach released its first report card detailing the health of 30 species of SoCal marine life. Green sea turtles and giant sea bass are recovering, while several ...

Each year at this time, female turtles move from lakes, ponds, wetlands, rivers and streams to nesting areas, where they deposit their eggs in self-excavated nests. Unfortunately, many nesting ...

Q. I saw a photo on Facebook of a rattlesnake with its head looking up at the base of an oak tree and its enormous body stretched out in the ...

A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of ...

In a moment of triumph for marine conservation, Clearwater Marine Aquarium (CMA) successfully released six rehabilitated sea ...

Which birds fly at night? Do turtles hibernate? And do rattlesnakes stretch out on the ground? We have the answers.

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

Around 10,000 endangered tortoises were swept away by a cyclone in Madagascar. They were the same species of turtle that a Knoxville zoologist rescued in 2018.

In a new study, biology researchers from the College of Sciences’ UCF Marine Turtle Research Group studied the dispersal ...

For decades, scientists have wondered about what happens during the so-called lost years between when tiny hatchlings leave ...