COCOA, Fla.-- Florida wildlife officials are investigating a huge spike in soft shell turtle deaths throughout the St. Johns River basin. Soft shell turtles are dying along St. Johns River basin Boat ...

These leathery turtles spend most of their lives buried motionless in river mud, but burst into action to catch their unsuspecting prey. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

This flexible shell isn t as good for defense, but facilitates speed both on land and water. For most turtles in the Northeast, shells serve another, critical purpose as a mineral reserve that helps ...

You can catch cholera from drinking contaminated water. You can catch it from raw or undercooked shellfish. And you can catch it from soft-shell turtles. That's the finding of a study published ...

If you were crossing the U.S. 98 Causeway over Mobile Bay yesterday afternoon, you might have caught sight of a man, tall and bearded, running down the side of the highway carrying a giant turtle. I ...

When we picture sea turtles in the wild, it’s easy to envision them as armored warriors – their hard, resilient shells serving as near-impenetrable shields against oceanic threats like sharks. These ...

KAOH TRONG, CAMBODIA — It was late last year when the owner of a popular restaurant in Kratie, a town in northern Cambodia, got a visit from local fishermen who had caught a live turtle in the Mekong ...