Under cover of darkness, the female turtle crawls up the beach. Her front flippers alternate to pull 250 pounds of shell and flesh towards the dunes, inch by inch. Encased in heavy armor of fused ribs ...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A massive sea turtle that was found injured along the Florida coast in May following a boat strike was returned to the ocean on Wednesday. The adult female, named Pennywise and ...

An endangered sea turtle was returned to the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, months after he was found stranded on a beach and suffering from hypothermia last winter. Named Elton, the juvenile Kemp’s ...

Talk about the catch of a lifetime. A fisherman in Texas reeled in a massive alligator snapping turtle while he was celebrating Father’s Day. Justin Broomhall, 25, of Longview, Texas, was fishing for ...

KIRKLAND, Wash. — An invasive snapping turtle was found last week at Juanita Beach Park in Kirkland. The alligator snapping turtle, which is the largest freshwater turtle in the U.S., was located ...