A Florida family planned their dream home, until protected tortoises took over. Now, they're paying $1,300 in taxes for ...

The sheer number of species that rely on a gopher tortoise burrow for survival, roughly 365, and the diversity of creatures sharing the burrow is astounding. Also, how deep, long and sturdy the ...

Will Indian River County let Tolls Brothers build Ridge Top neighborhood atop 600 gopher tortoise burrows in Wabasso?

With its intricate, patterned shell, the near-threatened Karoo tent tortoise is a unique and hard-to-find resident of South ...

Rudrapur: A 26-year-old man was arrested for smuggling 82 live turtles of a protected species in Gadarpur, Udham Singh Nagar ...

Marine turtles migrate long distances between their feeding grounds and nesting sites. They have a large shell called a carapace, four strong, paddle-like flippers and like all reptiles, lungs for ...

They’re also a bit of a bridge between land and water, depending on the species. “All animals with a backbone and a shell are turtles,” says Jeffrey Lovich, Research Ecologist at the U.S. Ge ...

Since being deemed a threatened species, they must be relocated ... and mature at slower rates than South Florida tortoises that can eat all winter, Moore said. Tortoises face other challenges ...

is one of the biggest threats to loggerhead sea turtles and all sea turtles. Red-eared and yellow-bellied sliders are two types of non-native turtles you'll find in the wild in Delaware.

Climate change jeopardizes endangered species’ habitats. Potentially jeopardizing them further is a federal proposal around ...

As World Sea Turtle Day approaches on Monday, an expert explains threats to sea turtles and their ecological importance along ...

Attracted by bait, sea turtles off the coast of southern Peru often get caught on fishing hooks intended for mahi-mahi.