The St. Johns River has a wonderful and diverse variety of wildlife. The river’s vertebrate wildlife includes all the fish species in the water and birds in the air too. But there are also frogs, ...

For pet owners, aquarium goers and nature lovers, turtles are a spectacle to behold with intricate shells and long lifespans. Turtles exist in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes. Red-eared sliders, ...

Turtles and tortoises, though sharing ancient ancestry and a protective shell, exhibit significant differences in habitat, morphology, and ecological roles. Aquatic turtles possess streamlined shells ...

World Turtle Day is coming up May 23. It’s a great reminder to celebrate a species that is loved around the world. Sadly though, more than half of turtles and tortoises are threatened or endangered, ...

Q. I know tortoises live on land. Does that mean box turtles (which also live on land) are tortoises? How many true tortoises are there, what parts of the world do they live in and how big do they get ...

Jackie Tliemat is a PhD student at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi studying diseases in Texas Tortoises May 23, 2024 is World Turtle Day Texas Tortoises are a threatened species and people often ...

Most people have a turtle story. Perhaps they watched one glide through an aquarium tank as a child, helped one cross a busy road, or have spotted one in the wild and stopped to admire its determined ...

Researchers suggest that an earthquake spooked a mob of sea turtles gathered together in a prehistoric sea. By Carolyn Wilke Gramma, a Galápagos tortoise described by her care specialists as “the ...

The American Tortoise Rescue (ATR) is urging parents to buy toys, not real turtles ahead of the release of the movie "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem." According to the rescue, kids often ...