This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I have written about a lot of causes of ...

An Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle hatchling. Courtesy San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance The San Diego Zoo announced Monday that conservationists have succeeded in breeding the endangered Indian ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) - Pembroke Pines Police tweeted a photo of one of their own rescuing a softshell turtle on Monday morning. The tweet said: "Earlier this morning, School Resource Officer Miguel ...

After over two decades of patiently waiting, endangered Indian narrow-headed softshell turtles finally bred at the San Diego Zoo. This marks the first time the species has been documented reproducing ...

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 ...

The creature paddling leisurely in the gin-clear water at Balmorhea State Park, in far West Texas, was the approximate size, shape, and color of a buttermilk flapjack. When I crouched along the grassy ...

As the Wekiva River awakens with daybreak, its cooters and loggerhead musks claw onto fallen tree limbs to bask their mossy shells in sunlight. If a canoeist ventures too near, the cautious turtles ...

Indiana DNR shares how to help native Indiana turtles cross the road safely and why they don't make good pets.