William Shockley and his teenage son are fishing for freshwater turtles the same way their family has done for four generations in south-central Florida: deploying about a mile of nylon line on four ...

The unearthing of three 220m-year-old fossils in China has solved the enduring mystery of how the turtle got its shell. The ancient remains are the first evidence palaeontologists have of a species of ...

THESE are the incredible scenes as scientists attempt to save the world's most-endagered turtle from extinction – by using artificial insemination on a 100-year-old potential mother-to-be. The ...

Sea turtles have an average lifespan of 20 to 30 years. During that timeframe, they experience changes in ocean chemistry, ...

One of the world’s largest and least studied freshwater turtles has been found in Cambodia’s Mekong River, raising hopes that the threatened species can be saved from extinction.

It has been a grim season in one of Queensland's best-known regions for sea turtles, as more than 10 times the usual number of sick and dying animals are pulled from the water. Fraser Coast volunteers ...

A new species of turtle has been found in Betana Wetland at Belbari in Morang. A team of scientists has discovered that there are more than two dozen Black Softshell turtles listed as 'critically ...

Residents of Baneswar in Cooch Behar district observed a five-hour strike on Thursday to protest the deaths of Black soft-shell turtles, locally called Mohan, and demanded proper conservation of the ...

A dead reptile of its kind washed up on the shores of Dong Mo Lake in Vietnam, measuring 156 cm. long and weighing 93 kg. Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The ...

Neanderthals hunted turtles but did not rely on them for food - they cleaned and reused the turtle's shells as tools.

The last female Yangtze giant softshell turtle died in captivity aged 90, leaving just three of the species left TAKE a good, long look at the incredible creatures on this page – if things don’t ...