Young sea turtles actively swim and choose their paths instead of drifting. New satellite tracking reveals their movements.

For decades, scientists have wondered about what happens during the so-called lost years between when tiny hatchlings leave ...

this turtle depends heavily on what little water remains in the Southwest. The easiest way to identify a Sonoyta mud turtle is by its location, since it's the only turtle inhabiting its very small ...

Long-neck turtles are also among the most active turtles on land, often traveling kilometers to find water. So they frequently ... help facilitate movement by small animals. Where possible ...

Cold-blooded turtles typically become stressed when water temperatures dip below 50 ... Last week, rescuers pulled more than 40 small green sea turtles from offshore St. Augustine.

small lakes and ponds, marshes, irrigation ditches and reservoirs. Turtles bask on land or near water on logs, branches or boulders. Terrestrial habitat may be just as important as aquatic habitat for ...

The goal of the project was to develop a sensitive and specific portable eDNA water test to detect a known individual of Swinhoe's softshell Turtle, confirmed through a previous capture and ...