FOLLY BEACH — Beachgoers have been shell-shocked to see leatherback sea turtles — an endangered species, swimming along the coast of South Carolina. The leatherback is the largest turtle in the world, ...

UPDATES ON THIS STORY AS WE LEARN MORE. THE NATURE PRESERVE IS ASKING FOR HELP RIGHT NOW. AFTER A SPECIAL BABY BOX TURTLE WENT MISSING. ACCORDING TO THE PRESERVE, THEY BELIEVE SOMEONE TOOK MICHELLE ...

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 ...

A large sea turtle weighing more than 50 kilograms has been rescued from a Urunga beach. The turtle was discovered stranded upside down in the dunes by a passer-by. The female turtle will be ...

Every hawksbill sea turtle matters. That’s a biological reality for a species listed as critically endangered under the Endangered Species Act — one that was nearly driven to extinction by hunting. So ...

A Midland man and his daughter discovered the body of a 56-year-old Jerome Township woman Sunday near Turtle Ponds. Midland County Undersheriff Daniel Teer said the department isn't releasing the ...

On our first night at Turtle Island, a private island resort in Fiji's Yasawa archipelago, my husband Alex and I were about 15 minutes late to happy hour. Our bure, or villa, was perched on one of the ...

A critically endangered hawksbill turtle was in a poor way when it was found covered in barnacles on a NSW far south coast beach. Beare the turtle spent months in the care of a wildlife refuge. When ...

An adult female Kemp's ridley sea turtle is seen swimming in a tank at Loggerhead Marinelife Center after a satellite tracking device was attached to its shell in Juno Beach, Fla. on Tuesday, March 24 ...

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 ...

A rescued turtle with a "fighting spirit" has reached another milestone in her recovery after undergoing a specialist CT scan. Crush was taken to Sea Life Weymouth for treatment after being found ...

The turtle is now receiving care from the Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research and veterinarians from the Houston Zoo "We are hopeful for her recuperation and eventual release back into the Gulf," ...