World Turtle Day seeks to raise awareness of turtles and help educate the public on how to save the endangered marine turtles. 1. On Sept. 14, 1968 the Soviet Union launched two Horsfield tortoises ...

KINGSTON TWP. — A group of toddlers had a shell of a time Saturday as they learned all about turtles at Frances Slocum State Park. Kathy Kelchner, an environmental educator with the Pennsylvania ...

Wandering the world’s oceans, sea turtles have fascinated people for thousands of years. But like many marine creatures, these ocean-going reptiles are struggling in a changing world. Governments have ...

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 ...

It's World Turtle Day, an annual observance to help people "shellebrate" and protect turtles and tortoises and their disappearing habitats around the world. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the ...

Turtles may look slow and quiet, but they’re actually some of the oldest animals on Earth. They’ve been around for over 200 million years and have survived big changes that made many other animals go ...

All around the world Wednesday, people were "shellebrating" World Turtle Day. The holiday, which falls on May 23 each year, is sponsored by the American Tortoise Rescue (ATR), an organization ...

Snapping turtles roamed the Earth, albeit slowly, millions of years before dinosaurs. They can live 75 or more years, and the biggest one caught in the wild weighed 68 pounds. Historians speculate ...