Turtles near Japan’s Nara Prefecture now have safe passage across the local train tracks. Despite being small and adorable, the little turtles sometimes get caught in the switch rail mechanism—which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Pat Conroy’s book, The Great Santini, Col. Bull Meecham ran over Eastern box turtles for fun, to hear them go pop! on the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Using satellite trackers, scientists have discovered the whereabouts of young sea turtles during a key part of their lives. "We've had massive data gaps about the early baby to ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An aquarium in South Africa is stretched beyond capacity after more than 500 baby sea turtles were washed up on beaches by a rare and powerful storm and rescued by ...

Indonesia scored two big victories in recent weeks against smugglers of pig-nosed turtles, who get their name from their cute piggy snouts. On Jan. 17, the Fish Quarantine Inspection Agency seized ...