HOUSTON — Houston Zoo recently became the home of four newly hatched painted terrapin turtles, one of the most endangered species of turtles in the world. They're the first painted terrapin turtles to ...

Baby turtles are some of the cutest shelled animals on Earth. However, did you know that sea turtles usually hatch at night? Or that they imprint on the magnetic field of the beach where they were ...

On July 27, park biologists found a 'leucistic' loggerhead sea turtle at the bottom of a nest. That means the sea turtle has a whiter coloration than his siblings, making him very rare. But his white ...

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To figure out what baby turtles see when they hatch, researchers in Georgia are collecting images from their point of view. Many communities along the coast of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina have ...

Erin Clabough received funding from the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges. Playing with my children on a beach on Hatteras Island, a barrier island off the coast of North Carolina, I struck ...

Down a gravel road, just on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge in Skamania County, is a 64-acre sanctuary for the western pond turtle. Turtle Haven isn’t on any maps, and the few ...

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An aquarium in South Africa is stretched beyond capacity after more than 500 baby sea turtles were washed up on beaches by a rare and powerful storm and rescued by members of the public. The little ...