Gracie Jeffries didn’t expect to visit, eye to eye, with a gray rat snake. But that was her unexpected treat Friday, Jan. 13, when she was the first beneficiary of a close encounter with reptiles in ...

Regarding "Dead sea turtle taken to NOAA's Galveston lab after washing up at Seabrook home" (Chron.com, Thursday), since 2003, the Turtle Island Restoration Network has sponsored the sea turtle rescue ...

A mother sea turtle crawls back to the ocean on Thursday, July 5 after Friends of Hunting Island volunteers helped rescue her from under a fallen tree. Friends of Hunting Island Sea Turtle ...

Today's sea turtles are the sole survivors of a once diverse ecosystem of marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs. Sea turtles first appeared during the Cretaceous period, 130-140 million years ago ...

A team of scientists has reconstructed a detailed 'tree of life' for turtles. Next generation sequencing technologies have generated unprecedented amounts of genetic information for a thrilling new ...

Where do turtles belong on the evolutionary tree? For decades, the mystery has proven as tough to crack as the creatures’ shells. With their body armor and retractable heads, turtles are such unique ...

A turtle was found dangling from a tree in Oceanside attached to several bright balloons, according to authorities. Chanelle Wright, who first saw the helpless turtle, called animal services to rescue ...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals offered a $2,500 reward today for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever taped a box turtle to a cluster of helium balloons and floated ...