The Prospect Park Zoo welcomed five new endangered Chinese big-headed turtles. The little reptiles were born last month, which the Wildlife Conservation Society says is "the first time the species has ...

Boxed in by a freeway, a golf course and a neighborhood, it’s a miracle that San Francisco’s Mountain Lake even exists. But not only is the tiny lake—located on the south end of the city’s Presidio ...

Snapping turtles are not the kind of animal that most people think of as “cute” with their funnel-shaped noses, thick, warty bodies, and armored tails. Box turtles are cute. Sea turtles are adorable.

A red-eared slider in Maharashtra. The turtle originated in the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. | Rahul Kulkarni / Mongabay India Around three months ago, Adithyan D Thambi, a Class 6 ...

Three critically endangered big-headed turtles have hatched at London Zoo, just a few years after their parents were rescued from the illegal wildlife trade. Smugglers had tried to illegally import ...