Sea turtles and shorebirds are at their peak during nesting season as Independence Day will draw thousands to coastal areas ...

The debris arrives in the rockets’ wake: melted plastics, aluminum and pieces of blue adhesive. It all ends up stranded on ...

You wouldn’t normally see the words “turtle” and “lightning-fast” in the same sentence, but common snapping turtles have skills that put Olympic athletes to shame. Although some people in the comments ...

Nearly a mile of riverfront in Bent County is now a preserve for prairie wildlife and plants. Nonetheless, there’s much work ...

A Florida family planned their dream home, until protected tortoises took over. Now, they're paying $1,300 in taxes for ...

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The distinction:Tortoises are land-only animals and do not swim. Turtles can be aquatic, semi-aquatic, or live mostly on land. Terrap)ins live in brackish water.

Terre Chartrand is a land-based educator from the Red Osier Guild in Waterloo region. She shares a few facts and traditional teachings related to the turtle to celebrate World Turtle Day.

KARACHI: Holding the land department of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) responsible for the destruction of turtles’ resting and nesting grounds along Hawkesbay beach, the Sindh ...

Wood turtles spend time in water and on land but prefer to nest in river valleys — which also happen to be the best places for farms and the easiest places to build roads, Briggs said.

Their population is in decline due to disease, habitat loss and invasive predators like bullfrogs. The turtle is listed as endangered by Washington state and as part of the Oregon Conservation ...

The current global sea turtle population is estimated at 6.5 million, with most species classified as endangered or critically endangered. This decline is primarily due to habitat loss, illegal ...