The earliest known ancestors of turtles appeared about 220–240 million years ago (in the late Triassic period), roughly the ...

Turtles have been listed as one of the endangeredspecies and human beings are their biggest threat.This is because out of 10,000 eggs laid, onlyabout 10 survive, according to Africa Network for Animal ...

Professor by night, park ranger by day, protector of sea turtles always. That was the late Hank Smith, a unique person in Florida’s environmental history. I knew him as a colleague at Florida Atlantic ...

Locally, turtles' nesting season runs from about mid-May to mid-June. Motorists kill thousands of turtles trying to cross roads to get to their nesting sites. Seven of the state's 10 native turtle ...