Here's how Jorge the sea turtle prepared for the improbable journey—decades after he was found tangled in a fishing net off ...

Here's how Jorge the sea turtle prepared for the improbable journey—decades after he was found tangled in a fishing net off ...

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s ...

The most recently designated state symbol is Pennsylvania’s Official state amphibian. No, it’s not a frog or toad, it’s a ...

You wouldn’t normally see the words “turtle” and “lightning-fast” in the same sentence, but common snapping turtles have skills that put Olympic athletes to shame. Although some people in the comments ...

She is small, quirky, and stubborn—and she emits a foul odor when threatened: The common musk turtle is one of North America's most fascinating aquatic turtles. Within her compact body lies an ...

The Pflugerville facility helps rehabilitate the animals with health conditions due to improper care, as well as those who ...

Never take a wild turtle home with you. Turtle species native to Delaware are prohibited from being owned as pets, according ...

Common snapping turtle. Snapping turtles are Delaware's largest freshwater turtle species, reaching up to 35 pounds and 18 inches long. They are known to resemble dinosaurs, with large heads ...

It's got an instinct that it's going to go somewhere,” he said. Because of how common they are, Briggler said most turtles that appear on roads are the harmless three-toed box turtle, which gets its ...

While snapping turtles make up the most common passengers (snapping turtles often walk farther on land to nesting sites, ... The whole side of the box was torn open and the turtle got out!

Some 60 percent of turtle species are threatened or endangered, and even relatively common ones such as the box turtle are in trouble because of habitat loss, climate change, disease and poaching.