Many of the differences between turtles and tortoises come from this habitat difference. For example, water-dwelling turtles' ...

I have two turtles, ages 55 and 35. They have been healthy for almost their entire lives. I’ve never had to take them to the vet but recently, one of them developed a hole in their carapace on the ...

The homeowner was moved to build a cage for the visiting Eastern box turtle's nest, which made way for hatchlings.

Turtles and tortoises, though related, exhibit key differences. Turtles are primarily aquatic with streamlined shells and ...

Tortoises are inherently amusing critters, with their meandering pace, grumpy faces and shy but sassy personalities. These ...

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s collection of nature books and daydream about the creatures within. One species ...

Humongous Turtle Shell Unearthed. This shows an 8-million-year-old turtle shell that measured nearly 8 feet (2.4 meters) was discovered in Venezuela.

A recent tragedy occurred in Indian River County, Florida when an elderly man tried to save a turtle. The reptile was slowly creeping across I-95 when an 87-year-old Vermont native attempted to help ...

An Alabama family was hunting for fossils when they discovered a huge, fossilized turtle shell on the bank of a river.

This year has been a great one for spotting Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina) in the Andorra Natural Area, the northern end of Wissahickon Park. We had three unique animals sighted: one ...

Soft-shell syndrome had been devastating green sea turtle numbers since flood events began impacting their seagrass food ...