Perhaps Tranquilo was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. The polyresin Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle has been missing from his perch on Galveston’s Postoffice Street for months, awaiting a pricey ...

The turtle looked kind of cute and cuddly tucked away inside its colorful shell after being plucked out of a Marin County lake, but the wrinkly reptile was no E.T., and he wasn't anywhere near home.

As I held the spotted turtle that Rick Koval and I just captured in a Luzerne County swamp, it struck me just how colorful turtles really are. I always assumed turtles were just drab shades of dark ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — 11 out of the 16 documented turtle species in the Volunteer State can be found in and around East Tennessee. Whether you’re curious about what turtle is the smallest, ...

There’s a good reason for the box turtle’s name. A hinge on the bottom of its shell lets the land-dwelling turtle pull its legs, head, and tail inside and close it up tight — like a box. When I was a ...