More than a dozen people participated in Lazy Turtle’s inaugural polar plunge on February 7 to help raise money for a local nonprofit dedicated to supporting Oak Island’s most popular summer visitors.

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 ...

Witnessing sea turtles nesting or tiny hatchlings making their first journey to the ocean is one of nature’s most magical experiences. These ancient mariners have been following the same ritualistic ...

PADRE ISLAND, TX — Padre Island National Seashore has significantly reduced the number of volunteers allowed to search for Kemp's ridley sea turtle eggs, limiting field teams to just four volunteers ...

The Holden Beach Turtle Watch Program is launching an adopt-a-nest sponsorship program. Nests will be available for adoption on a first-come, first-serve basis as they are laid along the Brunswick ...

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 ...

The South Florida Water Management District held a python hunt in December with cash prizes. Kevin Pavlidis won multiple awards, including for most pythons captured and the longest python. The ...

This post presents a deep dive into a browser-based implementation of Python’s turtle module that achieves full semantic parity with CPython. Using the CodeScapes platform as a concrete case study, it ...

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 ...

For more than 30 years, we’ve been a proud supporter of Essex County Turtle Back Zoo. This year, our employees and their families rolled up their sleeves for the annual Turtle Back Zoo Day of Service, ...

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 ...

On Oct. 23, Calvin University welcomed 11 baby spotted turtles from John Ball Zoo as a part of a program aimed to strengthen the spotted turtle population in Michigan. Spotted turtles are considered ...