While adult turtles need large tanks, hatchling turtles can be temporarily kept in turtle tank setups designed specifically ...

The CDC is warning the public about the health risks associated with tiny pet turtles. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is cautioning people to think twice before bringing home ...

Call this one Phantom of the Turtles. Or the Case of the Masked Reptile. But this story's no Halloween tale. It's all about an endangered species, three-dimensional printing and veterinary ingenuity.

At first glance, they look harmless enough. Africa’s helmeted terrapins often sit motionless in grassland water holes, silently watching the herds of animals that come to sip from their muddy homes.

A critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle came out of nowhere, surprising marine biologists as they filmed biofluorescence in sharks and coral reefs. Marine biologists made a shocking discovery ...

Scientists have discovered that a critically endangered sea turtle has an amazing ability never seen before in a reptile — it glows neon green and red when exposed to blue light. The hawksbill sea ...

NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing threatened status for alligator snapping turtles — huge, spike-shelled beasts that lurk at the bottom of slow waterways, luring prey to ...

A giant sea turtle ambled out of the chilly waters of Tomales Bay on Thanksgiving to the amazement of several witnesses and sunned itself on a beach near Inverness, thousands of miles from its normal ...

Dan Hemby told a news station that losing his turtle, named Thanos, was "almost like losing a piece of myself" Getty Images A 100-year-old alligator snapping turtle has gone missing in North Carolina ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is cautioning people to think twice before bringing home turtles to keep as pets. On Tuesday, the agency said 13 states are currently investigating ...