Forget the giraffes, gibbons and leopards. About a dozen visitors at the Turtle Back Zoo in New Jersey gathered one recent morning around the most unusual sight of all. It was a small, light-brown ...

“Did you know that sea turtles on reaching the age of sexual maturity know to go back to the same exact beach – where they once emerged as hatchlings – and lay eggs?” Amy Bonka asked a crowd of about ...

MOCKSVILLE, N.C. — The pilot of a small plane that crashed near a North Carolina airport this month had raised a wheel after landing to avoid hitting a turtle on the runway, according to a National ...

Two entities with the same goal are sparring with each other. Tensions are rising between turtle rescue organizations and the Florida Wildlife Commission that oversees their work – so much so that the ...