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

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s ...

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 ...

In the dead of night on a beach in Suriname's capital Paramaribo, a group of just-hatched baby sea turtles clamber out of ...

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 ...

Nesting sea turtles leave about 75 percent of their energy on land in the form of eggs and hatchlings before they return to sea. A Poorer World So, turtles do a lot for the world’s ecology.

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 ...

While spiny softshell turtles are threatened in Vermont and spotted turtles are endangered, wood turtles could soon be threatened in the state due to land use change.That is why the state’s Fish ...

The work included habitat conservation, research on occupancy and threats to the species, longtime monitoring for the long-living adults, and invasive turtle removal and bullfrog removal.

Facts about sea turtles you need to know. TOI Science Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Sep 19, ... Unlike land turtles, sea turtles cannot retract their heads or flippers into their shells.