Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

Freshwater turtles may be small, but they play a vital role in keeping river habitats healthy, both for themselves and other ...

There are many different types of turtles in the world, but almost none are as unique and specialized as the Mary River ...

The Mary River Turtle, an Australian freshwater species, possesses the extraordinary ability to breathe through its rear, ...

East of the northern Ucayali River in Peru is a geologically subsiding basin crossed by winding rivers and extensive wetlands. Much of this topographically flat region is flooded for several months ...

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), just two turtles are known to live in Vietnam and one in captivity in China, all over 100 years old.

An ancient species, the Yangtze giant softshell turtle, faces extinction with only two known wild survivors. Habitat loss, ...

Jordan Salama - Author of Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena At dawn on the Río Claro Cocorná Sur, near the tributary’s confluence with the great Magdalena River in ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Inside Ecuador’s Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve, an Indigenous Cofán community has since the 1990s carried out an initiative that has contributed to an ...

A female leatherback turtle crawled ashore in Boca Raton one night last week, dug a hole in the sand and deposited a clutch of golf-ball sized eggs. Her arrival came a week before the “official” start ...