Rob Gonzales noticed a big snapping turtle trying to cross Riverview Drive in Winona Tuesday afternoon. Knowing the road is a popular route for semi trucks, Gonzales didn’t want the turtle to meet its ...

May 1 is the official start of the annual sea turtle nesting season in Southwest Florida, but for Mote Marine Laboratory’s sea turtle patrol, the season started today. Mote’s 275 volunteers began ...

How many different species of turtles live in Arkansas? I wondered this after seeing several kinds in the Bald Knob National Wildlife Refuge recently. The first I came across were a common snapping ...

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 ...

Taking a cue from Aesop’s turtle and hare, plodding sea turtles have sped to the rescue of retired racing greyhounds. This month, greyhound advocate Debbie Raskin received the keys to a 1995 Ford ...

For years, it was the manatee. But now Volusia County has a new symbol of humanity’s clashes with nature: The sea turtle. The turtles, plodding holdovers from the age of the dinosaurs, have been ...

Famous for carrying its shelled "home" on its back, the humble, plodding turtle has also been toting around one of the biggest mysteries of the animal kingdom. Paleontologists have now unearthed a ...

Don’t put your money on Myrtle the Turtle. There’s no gambling here. Besides, the turtles change names every couple of races. Myrtle could become Stalin, M.F. Jones or Saturday Soup. You never really ...