A potential new setback to the contentious One Lake development project comes down to the Pearl River Map Turtle, a species named for its distinct map-like shell pattern, that is unique to the Pearl ...

Volunteers with the Tybee Island Sea Turtle Project Dawn Patrol spotted the crawl of a loggerhead sea turtle and were able to ...

The golden rule when it comes to sea turtles is simple: look, but don’t touch. But in Edisto, there’s a new kind of turtle drawing attention — and this time, interaction is encouraged. In fact, the ...

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or treating them like clothing. Biology disagrees. A turtle shell is not an ...

Five years ago, Sarett Nature Center staff members began to realize they had an abnormal amount of box turtles throughout the ...