Eventually the GPS tags slough off because “the outside of a young turtle’s shell sheds as they grow very quickly,” said ...

Painted turtles are the most common species of freshwater turtle in North America. Distinguished by their relatively small ...

In a new study, biology researchers from the College of Sciences’ UCF Marine Turtle Research Group studied the dispersal ...

Small turtles cannot legally be sold as pets because of the Salmonella infection risk. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

Last week, rescuers pulled more than 40 small green sea turtles from offshore St. Augustine. Biologists drove many of those to the Tampa Bay area, where they’re warming up at the Florida ...

This means that any toxins and pollutants in their prey can accumulate in larger doses in these turtles. For example, if one fish ingests a small amount of toxin and a snapper eats five fish, the ...

Turtles can be found anywhere, from local ponds and the deep, blue sea to an aquarium tank in your bedroom. These aquatic, semiaquatic or terrestrial creatures are easily recognized thanks to ...

As the audience cooed over the sea turtles and snapped photos and videos, staff and volunteers carried the marine reptiles down a path between two crowds, like a soul train line, to the sea.

Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium’s recently reopened rehabilitation facility took in the cold-stunned juvenile turtles for ...

For over a decade, Mansfield and colleagues attached GPS tags to the fast-growing shells of young wild turtles. Steering small boats, they looked for young turtles drifting among algae in the Gulf ...