A South Texas lifeguard scanning the shoreline for swimmers instead found something that barely even looked alive. While patrolling Access 2 beach on Mustang Island late Saturday afternoon, Gulf Beach ...

GREENVILLE — Conestee Nature Preserve is pleading for help as it searches for a missing animal ambassador, a juvenile box turtle named Michelle. About the size of a silver dollar, Michelle disappeared ...

Juno Beach, Fla. — The veterinary staff at a Florida sea turtle hospital is getting help from space to monitor the animals they've rehabilitated. They're particularly interested in amputees. Using ...

Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice cores—are now being repurposed to help us better understand the lives of modern ...

A Kemp's ridley sea turtle that washed up sick along the Galveston shoreline last week is still fighting for her life. She remains in critical condition "but is still holding on," Dr. Christopher ...

An underpass installed beneath a busy stretch of road in Eliot a few years ago has led to ‘a substantial reduction in turtle mortalities,’ according to a state biologist. A Blanding’s turtle in the ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A loggerhead sea turtle has returned to the ...

A radical, pro-Palestinian group known as the Turtle Island Liberation Front plotted to carry out coordinated bombings against several targets in Southern California beginning on New Year’s Eve, ...

The publisher of the children’s book series “Franklin the Turtle” condemned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over what they called a “violent” portrayal of the character as he faces heat over strikes on ...

KEY WEST, Fla. — A 170-pound loggerhead turtle nicknamed “Molly” was back home in the warm waters of the Florida Keys on Tuesday after a successful surgery to remove a life-threatening tumor inches ...

TO THIRSTY THURSDAYS? WELL, ACCORDING TO GREEN TURTLE OPERATORS, THEY’LL CLOSE BY THE END OF THIS YEAR. NOW THEY SAY IT IS A BUSINESS DECISION BECAUSE IT IS ALSO RELATED TO THIRSTY THURSDAYS.