If you were crossing the U.S. 98 Causeway over Mobile Bay yesterday afternoon, you might have caught sight of a man, tall and bearded, running down the side of the highway carrying a giant turtle. I ...

Touren Pope was rockhounding in the Greater Green River Basin when he found a remarkable foot-long fossil. It turned out to be the shell of a ...

COCOA, Fla.-- Florida wildlife officials are investigating a huge spike in soft shell turtle deaths throughout the St. Johns River basin. Soft shell turtles are dying along St. Johns River basin Boat ...

Read full article: 3 men shot, injured in Orange County, deputies say Katie Tracey rescued a turtle walking in the middle of the street near the Dubsdread Golf Course on Wednesday. (WKMG) ORLANDO, Fla ...

One of the world's largest and least studied freshwater turtles has been found in Cambodia's Mekong River, raising hopes that the threatened species can be saved from extinction. Scientists captured ...

Last week, a Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle named Cu Rua died, leaving just three members of her species alive on the planet, writes John R. Platt for Scientific American. The giant turtle lived in ...

You can catch cholera from drinking contaminated water. You can catch it from raw or undercooked shellfish. And you can catch it from soft-shell turtles. That's the finding of a study published ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Conservationists have found a nest of the endangered Asian giant softshell turtle on a Mekong River sandbar in northeastern Cambodia, while 115 new species of various other ...

An extremely rare, giant soft-shell turtle, whose existence was connected to the country’s folklore, has died in Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital, according to reports. The turtle, known to locals as Cu Rua, ...

Last week, a Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle named Cu Rua died, leaving just three members of her species alive on the planet, writes John R. Platt for Scientific American. The giant turtle lived in ...