Touren Pope was rockhounding in the Greater Green River Basin when he found a remarkable foot-long fossil. It turned out to be the shell of a ...

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.

Soft-shelled turtles refuse to be typecast. Unlike their bulky, slow-moving cousins, soft-shelled turtles have adaptations for speed both on the land and in the water. The soft-shelled turtle is found ...

THERE. PRETTY GOOD. RARE AND ENDANGERED TURTLE SPECIES HAS BRED AT THE SAN DIEGO ZOO. STAFF SAY THEY ARE CARING FOR A 41 INDIAN NARROW HAD A SOFT SHELL TURTLE HATCHLINGS. CONSERVATION ISTS HAD ...

After peaking in 2022 with hundreds of green sea turtle strandings, cases of soft-shell syndrome are in decline. It is believed the disease is connected to the turtles' food source, after seagrass ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government has proposed adding four types of freshwater turtles to an international endangered species list, in part to better monitor exports of the species, whose meat is ...

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. Scientists captured ...

According to a news release from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, the zoo welcomed 41 Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle hatchlings over the summer. SDZWA said that the zoo has become the first ...