The baby turtles are Meso-American sliders (Trachemys venusta), a species subject to special government protections. Turtles are once again in Mexico’s limelight, after authorities announced the ...

Update 5/29/24: On May 24, John Kreatsoulas was sentenced to a year and a day in prison plus three years of supervised release for conspiring to illegally export thousands of turtles to Germany and ...

Baby turtles are some of the cutest shelled animals on Earth. However, did you know that sea turtles usually hatch at night? Or that they imprint on the magnetic field of the beach where they were ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Four baby Eastern box turtles — a species with a plummeting population in Virginia — were recently hatched at the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center, including rare turtle twins ...

While the video appeared to be authentic — that is, it did not look as though it had been digitally manipulated, and it genuinely depicted a "baby," or juvenile, turtle — it is false to say the ...

Erin Clabough received funding from the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges. Playing with my children on a beach on Hatteras Island, a barrier island off the coast of North Carolina, I struck ...

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