In many ways, it's the steady march of technological progression that's gotten us into our current dire ecological situation. It's appropriate, then, that science should also be the vector of our ...

The origin of turtles has puzzled scientists. A new study provides more evidence that these shelled reptiles share a common ancestor with crocodiles and birds. By Sara Novak Turtles are weird. They ...

Robots have gotten very good at moving fast, repeating steps and doing jobs that would wear you and me out. But ask a robot to pick up something delicate, oddly shaped or slightly different from the ...

New research indicates that sea turtles seem to navigate across hundreds of miles of open ocean using Earth's magnetic field. Previous experimental studies suggested that sea turtles use geomagnetism ...

A friend told Tracy Tempest that there were green sea turtles in the bay. “I looked for a long time, but couldn’t find them. When I found them, I just became fascinated with them,” says Tempest, a ...

They've roamed the oceans for more than 100 million years, outlasted the dinosaurs, and can dive nearly 4,000 feet deep — and yet, somehow, sea turtles are still wildly underappreciated. Today, in ...

INVESTIGATORS SAY A MALE SUSPECT WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. HE HAS NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED AND WILL AS THE WARMER WEATHER SETS IN... YOU MAY BE SEEING SCIENTISTS SAY THIS IS THE TIME WHEN TURTLES ARE NESTING ...

Foreign intelligence services are using "spy turtles" and "spy fish" to snoop on China, the country's Ministry of State Security said Friday. "An unseen covert war of espionage is currently unfolding" ...

KIAWAH ISLAND — In an unusual and unprecedented turn of events, the town of Kiawah and the S.C. Department of Natural Resources have removed two coyotes from the private island community after they ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville University has launched the Turtle Research and Conservation Initiative (TRCI), a new comprehensive program designed to conserve turtle species across Northeast ...

World Turtle Day is celebrated every May 23 to raise awareness about the threats faced by turtles and tortoises. Turtles, tortoises and terrapins, which together make up the order Testudines, have ...