Aquarium staff said the turtle was rescued last March after volunteers with the Southern California Sea Turtle Monitoring ...

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or ...

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

Sea Turtle: Sea turtles are ancient species, having been around since the time of the dinosaurs. Fossils from the oldest marine turtle date back 120 million years. Females and males are the same size ...

An animal hospital in the Florida Keys has given an endangered species of marine reptiles a second chance.The staff at The<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

This story appears in the September 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. Hatchlings known as “penny turtles” or “pet-shop turtles” were sold in Australian stores in the 1960s and ’70s. Aussie ...