BBC footage shows baby painted turtles frozen solid through winter, then miraculously thaw and come back to life ...

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is asking Marylanders to watch out for sea turtles exhibiting signs of ...

Humongous Turtle Shell Unearthed. This shows an 8-million-year-old turtle shell that measured nearly 8 feet (2.4 meters) was discovered in Venezuela. A couple renovated their kitchen—and stumbled upon ...

Turtle shells evolved over the course of 300 million years, but self-defense wasn't the initial driver, researchers think. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 ...

South Florida is home to the only barrier reef in the continental United States. But does it matter to people on land that the corals – like anywhere else in the world — are bleaching? To answer our ...

Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land itself. Sea water divides the sunset and a ghost land of corals in New Ireland, ...

Everything about the discovery of a fossilized leatherback sea turtle in Alabama four years ago is fascinating. The findings of the never-before studied species were published in a study Friday, ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - During a fishing trip in southern Alabama, a family of four discovered a fossilized shell of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle. A family of four recently discovered ...

For years, the Coleman family's fishing trips on the Alabama Gulf Coast were routine. But in 2021, their outing near a riverbank led to an odd find: the shell of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea ...