On this edition of Wildlife Wednesday, our Wildlife Wednesday reporter, Vinny Mutone, introduces us to three of the world’s ...

Volunteers spotted the injured turtle during a community science monitoring program. The subadult green sea turtle was the ...

Padre Island National Seashore is reducing volunteer patrols for the upcoming Kemp's ridley sea turtle nesting season. Volunteers and community members have expressed concern that fewer nests will be ...

Freshwater extinctions rarely happen overnight, especially in a habitat as large as the Yangtze River. However, it’s still possible for a species to dwindle, and dwindle enough so that only a few ...

Friends of Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge will present its first Second Sunday Program of 2026, Wood Turtles at Great Swamp Head-Starting Program, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 11, via ...

The V.I. National Park Sea Turtle Program, run by Friends of Virgin Islands National Park, has been cataloging underwater photographs of sea turtles, and a paper on their research has been published ...

HAWAII (KABC) -- A man was caught on video picking up a sea turtle on a beach in Hawaii, sparking outrage among many. In the video, the man is seen grabbing and propping the animal up so a woman can ...

Loggerhead turtles accounted for the vast majority of nests, with 5,384 recorded. A record number of sea turtle disorientations, 716 instances, were also documented this year. Experts advise beach ...

The Vallarta mud turtle, the world’s smallest turtle, lives only in temporary lagoons in the Mexican city of Puerto Vallarta, which poses a huge challenge for its conservation. By the time scientists ...

As recently as August 2024, researchers in Greece documented the non-native Chinese stripe‑necked turtle (Mauremys sinensis) on the island of Lesbos during fieldwork, finding three adults co-occurring ...

A royal tern was hit by a car in 1968 along the then-new Sanibel Causeway. That single accident led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Southwest Florida's most beloved creatures and the ...

Frigid seas trap turtles in deadly waters — and put Florida veterinarians on the front line of a climate emergency. Frigid seas trap turtles in deadly waters — and put Florida veterinarians on the ...