Endangered turtle found in Vietnam
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Researchers in Vietnam announced Friday they have caught one of the world's most endangered turtles in the wild, a development which could bolster efforts to protect the species from hunters and collectors.
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A leatherback turtle has chalked up a new migration record after covering more than 12,000 miles
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Despite ongoing turmoil between Israeli forces and Hezbollah, ecologists are finding time to give endangered sea turtles a boost in the Mediterranean Sea.
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At least 20 endangered turtles have been found dead along the coast of southeastern Bangladesh, an official said Thursday.
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About half the usual number of loggerhead turtles have nested between North Carolina and Florida this season, and scientists have no explanation for the drop.
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By Maggie FitzRoy  The rising sun painted the horizon pink one recent morning as Beaches Sea Turtle Patrol volunteer Shelli Martin walked the beach. In the dusty light, she looked for evidence that a female sea turtle had come ashore during the night, laid her eggs and headed back to sea.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Several species of sea turtles in Malaysia could vanish in a few years, largely due to illegal poaching of the creatures and their eggs, scientists warned on Wednesday.
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Rangers found the shells of eight endangered giant tortoises believed to have been killed by poachers, Galapagos National Park officials said Tuesday.
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Scientists think they may know why the world's largest leatherback turtle was washed up on a Welsh beach.
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GUANGZHOU, China  - In southern China, it doesn't  matter if an animal is an endangered species. As long as it  walks, wriggles or jumps, it's good enough for the pot.
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The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Wednesday announced the discovery of 11 new animal and plant species in a remote area of central Vietnam.
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HONG KONG - Turtles are considered a symbol of good luck in Hong Kong, but try telling that to the taxi driver whose car was hit and damaged by a big one that plummeted from a high-rise building.    The pet turtle climbed through an apartment window on Thursday and fell more than 10 stories onto the taxi's roof, which was scratched and dented, police spokesman Anson Lo told The Associated Press on Friday...
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GUANGZHOU, China - In southern China, it doesnât matter if an animal is an endangered species. As long as it walks, wriggles or jumps, itâs good enough for the pot.
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One of Earth's rarest birds might have gone into extinction following the death of one of the last known po'ouli.
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The remains of a 230-million-old marine reptile with fangs and a long neck have been unearthed in southeast China. The creature&#39;s 1.7m-long neck was almost twice as long as its trunk which measured less than one metre in length.
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JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. - One of three turtles at the new Georgia Sea Turtle Center had surgery on Monday, only two days after the center opened. Nick, one of three loggerhead sea turtles at the facility, has been at the center since he was rescued with injuries in May off Cumberland Island.
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A U.S. study focusing on global sea turtle populations has found that half a dozen species are still endangered or threatened despite promising increases in the number of adult females and nests, U.S. wildlife officials said Thursday.