Rockalina the eastern box turtle had never ventured outdoors since 1977 — now she’s healing and getting to feel grass beneath ...

The wood turtle is missing his right front foot, so his shell was getting damaged from scraping on the floor at the Museum of ...

Onassis, a giant Amazon River turtle, has lived at the zoo since 1969. No one knows exactly how old she is, but she's still ...

Though not endangered, painted turtles have a "pretty rough life," said wildlife ecologist Dan Thompson, who said many of the ...

He estimated the turtle was a fully grown adult, about 15 to 20 years old, when she was plucked from the wild in 1977 by a little boy with disabilities who found herwhile playing outside and ...

Rory McIlroy took a skip shot across a pond on the par-3 16th hole during a practice round at the famed golf course, but it nearly took out a curious little turtle that was on the other side of ...

After two below average years, sea turtle enthusiasts eagerly await the island’s first sea turtle nest of 2024.

Jekyll Island is excited to report the first sea turtle nest of the 2025 nesting season, marking the earliest nest laid this ...

She is an Arrau turtle (Podocnemis expansa), a species commonly ... Her shell size is a little over three feet long and a little under three feet wide. In the wild, arrau turtles eat mostly ...