A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.

Modern-day marine turtles can get pretty big, but not hippopotamus-size big ... Researchers found an almost complete pelvis and parts of the upper shell. "The specimen possesses a distinctive ...

A new species of giant freshwater turtle has been described by scientists who discovered the aquatic beast’s enormous jaw bone in the Brazilian Amazon. Its shell would’ve been around 1.8 ...

Is this adequate? The cat seems underweight to me, so I ask. J.N. Dear J.N., The most common causes for turtle shell defects are trauma, bacterial or fungal infections, poor hygiene sometimes ...

Every day is a school day when it comes to the internet - and now people have been left baffled at what turtles look like under their shell. There are a few things in life we never knew we needed ...

A massive loggerhead sea turtle that was hit by a boat off Florida’s Atlantic coast arrived at a turtle hospital in need of medical care ...