Conservationists attribute the primary cause of the mass olive ridley turtle deaths on Chennai's shores to drowning due to entanglement in fishing nets, despite trawlers being prohibited from ...

A U.S. district court has issued summary judgment against a lawsuit filed by conservationists attempting to stop the opening of leatherback sea turtle habitat to commercial sablefish harvesting, ...

As the audience cooed over the sea turtles and snapped photos and videos, staff and volunteers carried the marine reptiles down a path between two crowds, like a soul train line, to the sea.

CHENNAI: The southern bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday took suo motu cognisance of the increase in deaths ...

BENGALURU, India (AP) — Over 400 endangered sea turtles have washed ashore on India’s east coast near the city of Chennai in the last two weeks in an event not witnessed in over two decades.

FILE - An olive ridley turtle drags sand to cover its nest after laying it at the Rushikulya River in Ganjam, south of Bhubaneswar, India, March 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout, File) ...

This also allows air-breathing marine turtles to avoid capture and subsequent death from prolonged entrapment in the trawl net. Under Section 609 of the U.S. public law, wild-caught shrimp or products ...

A young manatee rolls on its back as it enjoys the morning at Manatee Park in Lee County. Manatees and sea turtles are vulnerable to cold snaps like the Arctic blasts this month as cold air can drop ...

Turtles can be found anywhere, from local ponds and the deep, blue sea to an aquarium tank in your bedroom. These aquatic, semiaquatic or terrestrial creatures are easily recognized thanks to ...