The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks is teaming up with Missouri State University researchers to launch alligator snapping turtles into state waters in autumn of this year. Juvenile alligator ...

According to Fauna & Flora, these prehistoric sea turtles trace their origins back to the dinosaur era, but their population ...

The post This Giant Ancient Turtle Dwarfs Its Modern Ancestors appeared first on A-Z Animals. Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite ...

SANTA ROSA, California -- In Northern California, there's a mystery unfolding about a creature that's been spotted at the bottom of a popular lake. Carlos Rubio was with his son at Lake Ralphine in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The leatherback sea turtle offers a rare look into ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will add new protections for a rare turtle whose ridged shell looks like a topographic map, with the goal of keeping it from going extinct. The federal agency has ...

A Kentucky angler has found himself back in Texas to reel in some massive monsters. Art Weston, state and world record fisherman, returned to Sam Rayburn Lake in the hope of setting another ...

Kids’ summer adventures often end in finding cool rocks. But 11-year-old Touren Pope found a prehistoric turtle. Back in July ...

From horseshoe crabs to crocodiles, some of these creatures have looked about the same for hundreds of millions of years.

Mistaken identity A Seychelles freshwater turtle species declared extinct after decades of futile searches, never existed, say scientists. While humans have contributed to the extinction of several ...