The African Helmeted Turtle Is Deceptively Friendly ... creatures are called mud turtles for a reason. One of the few species of turtle that prefers wallowing in warm mud puddles instead of ...

The territorial sea of São Tomé and Príncipe is home to five of the seven species of sea turtles in the world. View on ...

Baby turtles have to fend for themselves from the moment they hatch on beaches and make their way to the ocean. In South Africa, loggerheads hatch on the northeast coast on the far side of the ...

In many turtle species, females are larger than males, while generally speaking, tortoise males are larger than females. Most turtles are aquatic or semi-aquatic, while tortoises live on land.

Around 10,000 endangered tortoises were swept away by a cyclone in Madagascar. They were the same species of turtle that a Knoxville zoologist rescued in 2018.

Thanks to the lobby work, WWF West Africa conducted over the past year, all 7 countries ( Mauritania, The Gambia, Senegal, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, Cape Verde) have put in place a national ...

A South African aquarium is stretched to the seams after hundreds of baby sea turtles were washed up on beaches by a rare and powerful storm. Members of the public rescued over 500 of the creatures.