This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. In the late 19th ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. People often use the words turtle and tortoise interchangeably, but these reptiles have distinct differences: Turtle shells are typically more ...

Jackie Tliemat is a PhD student at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi studying diseases in Texas Tortoises May 23, 2024 is World Turtle Day Texas Tortoises are a threatened species and people often ...

Attention reptile-lovers, what do you call an animal that lives in a shell made of bone and keratin, shuffles along at a slow pace and lives on land? Any guesses? You may have off-handedly answered ...

The recent seizure in Thailand of 48 lemurs and more than 1,200 critically endangered tortoises endemic to Madagascar underscores the global scale of wildlife trafficking networks that use Thailand as ...

The gopher tortoise, which has a preserve in Aiken County, is now on the waiting list for protection under the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made the announcement Tuesday ...