Snapping turtles are not the kind of animal that most people think of as “cute” with their funnel-shaped noses, thick, warty bodies, and armored tails. Box turtles are cute. Sea turtles are adorable.

When a hatching sea turtle first pokes its head above the sand and scrambles to the sea, a watching child might ask how the turtle knows where to go and how girl turtles know to come back one day to a ...

Veterinarians at a Florida Keys turtle hospital are working around the clock to save sea turtles left immobile and vulnerable ...

On Wednesday, the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach opened an exhibit where visitors for the first time can watch sick ...

There are many threats to sea turtles, but most of them come from humans. Dangers may range from getting entangled in fishing gear to losing their habitats from beach erosion and human development.

The Gulf Specimen Marine Lab says search efforts continue as they treat turtles in varying stages of recovery.

VELAS, India — Little kids giddily squeal as a baby sea turtle, flippers flapping, lurches toward the water with the grace of a drunk lunging for a cab at closing time. Tourists applaud as about a ...

Two sea turtles, Ariel and Moana, were released into the ocean with tracking devices as part of the annual Tour de Turtles competition. The turtles were released near Disney's Vero Beach Resort, a key ...

(The story was changed to correct the use of a medical term, fibropapillomatosis.) St. Augustine’s cold weather snap didn’t just affect its residents. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

If you’re visiting Pensacola Beach over the next few days, there’s a chance you might stumble upon a seemingly immobile sea turtle washed up on the shore due to the recent cold weather in the ...