With his age estimated at about 90, Cedar has weathered many of life's battles. But the craggy snapping turtle bears scars of what is surely his greatest test: large, wide gashes from a boat propellor ...
High surf kicked up by Topical Depression Alberto in the Gulf of Mexico wreaked havoc on sea turtle nests in Escambia County. At least five nests were lost, four on Perdido Key and one on Pensacola ...
A Texas man’s guilty plea illuminates the workings of an ambitious international wildlife smuggling ring that has targeted exotic turtles and other species. A Texas man’s guilty plea illuminates the ...
Rockalina has become a viral sensation since being rescued in early 2025. The Eastern box turtle was in failing health, ...
Keeping a pet turtle must be so easy. You put water into a glass tank, add a turtle, then presto — you have everything taken care of! This couldn’t be further from the truth. Turtles are, in my ...
NEWPORT -- After a visit to an Oregon beach today to see what some thought could be a 20- million -year-old turtle, scientists walked away sure of only this: It's big, it's unusual and removing it ...
A Florida alligator recently has been gaining attention from news outlets and on social media after it was caught on camera crossing a road while carrying a turtle in its mouth.The U.S. Fish and ...
A few feet away from the turquoise water, about 17 UNC-Chapel Hill undergraduates form a loose semicircle, with the breeze fluttering their T-shirts and shorts. They’re at UNC’s Institute of Marine ...
Admittedly it wasn’t anything so exciting as standing watch over a nest at the beach, where do-gooders line the hatchlings’ path to the sea and prevent birds from eating them. (My wife dreams of doing ...