Tag: Turtles

A female hawksbill sea turtle unwittingly ingested many of the chemicals in her body while feeding off the coast of northern Oahu for several years before 2012. By the time...

Predators are stopping many bog turtle eggs from hatching and growing to adulthood. The bog turtle is the smallest turtle in the U.S., measuring only about three to four inches...

Royal turtles have laid five clutches of eggs in a conservation center — the first time ever the species has laid eggs in captivity in Cambodia. Royal turtles (Batagur affinis),...

Conservationists watched over the mass hatching of about 100,000 river turtle nestlings on a tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil as cameras captured it on film. Giant South American...

Desert tortoises suffered a “catastrophic decline” over two decades due to habitat degradation, extensive predation, disease and a lack of sufficient protection, according to a new study. But fencing to...

Translocating gopher tortoises to a barrier island in Georgia has resulted in a “robust and secure” population two decades after major efforts. “If you do it right, [translocation] can actually...

More than half of the nearly 500 species and subspecies of turtles and tortoises in the world are threatened with extinction. According to a review published recently in Current Biology,...

Researchers have discovered a new shell-eating disease, caused by a common alga, that affects mud turtles throughout their range.  There’s high prevalence of the disease, particularly in certain arid parts...

Prescribed fires may kill individual box turtles, but the aftermath produces favorable plots for egg-laying females. “The fire does create this challenging habitat around them by altering the availability of...

Humans aren’t directly to blame for most North American reptile deaths, according to a large new meta-study that examines a host of research in the United States and Canada. But...