ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (Storyful/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - Five rehabilitated sea turtles on Tuesday were released back into the ocean in Florida. The Florida Aquarium helped the endangered turtles -- which ...

On a recent bright morning in Holgate, 5-year-old Josie Davenport cupped her hands together and giggled as a teeny, tiny northern diamondback terrapin wriggled around. The baby turtle — only a couple ...

Trudging through the thorny brush, Mike Knoerr is on a quest. Thunk. Thunk. Two five-foot long wooden dowels, the width of a pool stick, are in each of his hands. Methodically, he pokes them into the ...

A bale of Arakan forest turtles — a critically endangered species — were welcomed to the world recently at an aquarium in Tennessee. The Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, Tennessee, announced the ...

Light gray-green, with a smooth, almost perfectly circular shell and a large, triangular head, it is the smallest species of sea turtle, topping out at two-and-a-half feet long and 70 to 100 pounds.

The Vallarta mud turtle, the world’s smallest turtle, lives only in temporary lagoons in the Mexican city of Puerto Vallarta, which poses a huge challenge for its conservation. By the time scientists ...