Explore how climate change and habitat loss threaten turtles, leading to dire impacts on ecosystems globally. Discover the role of keystone species. Turtles survived the massive extinction event that ...

World Sea Turtles Day, marked annually on June 16, raises awareness for the protection and conservation of the species by educating people about their importance to marine ecosystems. As a keystone ...

June 16 was World Sea Turtle Day, an occasion to consider the role these creatures play in the marine ecosystem. Florida State University Associate Professor Mariana Fuentes researches sea turtles and ...

CENTREVILLE — Recognizing turtles as a vital aspect of the local ecosystem, the Queen Anne’s County Commissioners encouraged everyone to join efforts in protecting and educating themselves about the ...

I recently wrote about salamanders, one of the most poorly known groups of animals. Turtles (including about 50 kinds of tortoises) are much better-known. But aside from their iconic shell, what sets ...

The giant turtles roamed a humid, swampy swath of northern South America some five to ten million years ago. Keystone / Chaime Chirionos Paleobiologists from the University of Zurich (UZH) have ...

World Turtle Day 2023: World Turtle Day is annually observed on May 23rd over the globe. It began in 2000 by American Tortoise Rescue to help people celebrate and protect turtles and tortoises and ...

Jess Grimm is the lab manager at the Caraplace studying turtles in their ‘lost years’ where it has been previously impossible to follow them close up at sea. Located at James Cook University, the ...

State lawmakers this week advanced a proposal to make the Eastern box turtle Pennsylvania’s official reptile. The House Game and Fisheries Committee on Tuesday voted without dissent to send the ...