A team of La Trobe University students researching freshwater turtle populations in the Murray-Darling Basin and beyond has discovered more than 500 turtles living at Imperial Lakes Nature Park in ...

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Sea turtles and shorebirds are returning to North Carolina beaches for nesting season. Artificial lighting is the greatest threat to sea turtles, disorienting both nesting mothers and hatchlings.

A gaming mouse with a touchscreen: A product pitch that would probably not have survived the first team meeting at many peripheral manufacturers is actually offered by the gaming brand Turtle Beach.

A baby box turtle named Michelle is missing from the Conestee Nature Preserve in Greenville. The rescue turtle was reportedly taken from its carrier by a visitor on April 3. Staff members say the ...

It started with the mysterious discovery of more than a hundred turtles, some with their shells smashed, others dismembered, all of them dead. It ended with a potential warning for the future. It was ...

Climate change is reshaping life on Earth at an unprecedented pace. Across the globe, species are shifting their ranges, altering migration routes and breeding earlier in the year in response to ...

A wildlife crossing in Eliot, Maine, has successfully reduced turtle deaths on State Route 236. The underpass was specifically designed to protect the endangered Blanding's turtle. Since the tunnel's ...

Over the last few weeks, volunteers have braved bitter winds and freezing temperatures to patrol Cape Cod’s bayside beaches at night, sweeping their flashlight beams along the last high-tide line ...

Researchers suggest that an earthquake spooked a mob of sea turtles gathered together in a prehistoric sea. By Carolyn Wilke Rocky cliffs run into the Adriatic Sea near Ancona, Italy. There, above the ...

Plastic ingestion and entanglement are major issues for sea life. The ocean is awash with plastic—more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals get ...

In the shallow turquoise waters off the island of Providenciales in Turks and Caicos—a British overseas territory south of the Bahamas—large adult green sea turtles rest on the sandy seafloor, grazing ...