Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Three months after a car hit an eastern box turtle in D.C., leaving her shell severely broken, 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 ...

May and June are prime months for turtles to cross roads in search of places to lay their eggs, and many end up getting ...

A recent tragedy occurred in Indian River County, Florida when an elderly man tried to save a turtle. The reptile was slowly creeping across I-95 when an 87-year-old Vermont native attempted to help ...

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