Monitoring the populations of one of nature's slower creatures could become faster, thanks to the University of Georgia. UGA ...

HARWICH -- Tracking turtles isn’t as easy as one might think, but Michael Musnick, a passionate amateur herpetologist, is doing his best. Holding an antenna and receiver, Musnick sets off down one of ...

On a warm morning in Virginia, a wildlife researcher walks slowly through a patchwork of forest and farmland, eyes scanning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the middle of a steamy July night on the Wassaw Island beach, near Savannah, Georgia, volunteer Gabi Steinbach plunged her arm ...

The process allows for researchers to determine genetic information about breeding male turtles from a single egg.

Researchers at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School have developed a method to read the chemical layers inside sea ...

HONOLULU (AP) — In a story Sept. 17 about sea turtles, The Associated Press reported erroneously the type of animal that sea turtles are. They are reptiles, not mammals. A corrected version of the ...

The Sea Turtle Conservancy’s Tour de Turtles kicked off last month, tagging and tracking 17 sea turtles during a marathon migration. Turtles wear small transmitters during the annual event as they ...

Minnesota summers means turtles are on the move, and a new app helps them cross roads safely. "I moved into a house at the intersection of two ponds and I noticed turtles crossing frequently and also ...

A team of scientists has created 3D printed decoy sea turtle eggs, fitted with GPS trackers to follow the path of eggs stolen by poachers. In a recent study on the first trial run of these eggs, the ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission needs the community’s help tracking a virus that is killing freshwater turtles in Florida. The FWC is asking for the public’s ...