Hong Kong animal rights activists have called on the government to create a list of approved pets after an abandoned 85kg (187lbs) alligator snapping turtle was found eating fish in a New Territories ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Deep in the coastal woods of South Carolina, behind high fences, guard dogs, and security cameras, is a group of people who know more about turtles than you. Posters and paintings of turtles and ...

Brumation is a hibernation-like state that can occur in some reptiles when the environmental temperatures get colder and the hours of daylight decrease. While an animal’s environment would trigger ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The leatherback sea turtle offers a rare look into ...

Two baseballs for a sea turtle. Three sugar cubes for a puffin. A soccer ball for a harbor porpoise. That’s roughly how much ingested plastic would be deadly for each animal, according to a study ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Two baseballs for a ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – Uncle Mike’s Bake Shoppe on East Mason Street is seeking answers after its beloved turtle statue was vandalized overnight. On Friday morning, the beloved northeast Wisconsin ...

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CHICAGO—Krystyna Kurth likes to begin her tours of the river cutting past the city’s post-industrial area with a word association game. Kurth, coordinator of conservation action at the Shedd Aquarium, ...

Fast animals often steal attention, but the slow ones hold a quiet fascination. From the ocean depths to forest canopies, survival sometimes depends less on speed and more on stillness. Is the sea ...