LOS ANGELES — After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galápagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of…
Read more Gramma the Galápagos tortoise, oldest resident of San Diego Zoo, dies at about 141Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by climate change and more than half of bird species around the world are declining under pressure from deforestation and…
Read more Arctic seals and more than half of bird species are in trouble on latest list of threatened speciesMarine biologists on Florida’s Space Coast have released June Cleaver, a 230-pound loggerhead turtle, back into the ocean MELBOURNE, Fla. — She may not wear a pearl necklace…
Read more June Cleaver the loggerhead turtle is released into the ocean off Florida after rehabAs Hurricane Erin pelted North Carolina’s barrier islands with strong winds and waves this week, it destroyed many nests of threatened sea turtle, burying the eggs deep in…
Read more Hurricane Erin never hit land or caused major damage, but endangered turtle nests weren’t so luckyAn unidentified driver and Arizona Department of Public Safety Sgt. Steven Sekrecki hold a rescued a sulcata tortoise that was attempting to cross Interstate 10 near Picacho, Ariz.,…
Read more Large desert tortoise rescued from Arizona highway after escaping from ostrich ranch 3 miles awaySteve and Jomi take this pod on the road with live reactions from D23 in Anaheim, California (3:06)! Then, the guys are joined by Jessica Clemons to discuss…
Read more D23 Reactions, ‘Umbrella Academy’ Finale, and ‘Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’We’ve heard of mouth breathing, but never butt breathing. Yet it turns out that turtles can breathe through their butts. Technically known as cloacal respiration, this biological feature…
Read more WTF Fun Fact 13690 – Butt-breathing TurtlesNORTH BELLMORE, N.Y. — Authorities seized about a hundred animals from a Long Island home packed with exotic species — including a giant African snail, a sulcata tortoise…
Read more Exotic animals including South American ostrich and giant African snail seized from suburban NY homeINDIAN ROCKS BEACH, Fla. — Just as they have for millions of years, sea turtles by the thousands made their labored crawl from the ocean to U.S. beaches…
Read more Sea turtle nests break records on US beaches, but global warming threatens survivalSAN FRANCISCO — Sardines swirling in preserved lemons. Mackerel basking in curry sauce. Chargrilled squid bathing in ink. All are culinary delicacies long popular in Europe that are…
Read more Canned seafood moves beyond tuna sandwiches in a pandemic trend that stuckGetting cozy with your pet turtle might not be a good idea, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last week, public health officials advised people…
Read more CDC Warns: Stop Puckering Up To Your Pet TurtlesBy JENNIFER McDERMOTT and ARNULFO FRANCO May 24, 2023 GMT https://apnews.com/article/sea-turtles-panama-animal-rights-world-turtle-day-44cb77ff472ef99cbac7667bce51d38a On a Panamanian beach long after dark, a group of undergraduate students dug into the sand to…
Read more In Panama, legal rights given to sea turtles, boosting the ‘rights of nature’ movementPHOENIX (AP) — They’re not fluffy, they don’t play fetch and they certainly don’t roll over. But there is such a thing as a lap tortoise. What’s more,…
Read more When you adopt a desert tortoise, prepare for a surprisingly social and zippy petFootage of a plump snapping turtle relaxing along a Chicago waterway has gone viral after the man who filmed the well-fed reptile marveled at its size and nicknamed…
Read more `Look at that beast!’ Video of plump Chicago snapping turtle, dubbed `Chonkosaurus,’ goes viralSAVANNAH, Ga. — A U.S. agency has agreed to an in-depth environmental study into whether dredging a Georgia shipping channel in the spring and summer would threaten rare…
Read more US agency plans deeper study of sea turtles, dredging threatOfficials in Nevada say a desert tortoise that is the focus of schoolchild predictions and local lore about the start of spring has emerged from its winter burrow…
Read more ‘Mojave Max’ tortoise emerges in Vegas; latest since 2000WASHINGTON — For the first time, United Nations members have agreed on a unified treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas — nearly half the planet’s surface…
Read more Nations reach accord to protect marine life on high seasMichelangelo, the 70-year-old African tortoise and San Jose preschool pet, wanders around at ARCHVET Animal Hospital in San Jose, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021, following surgery the day…
Read more California man avoids prison after 2021 attack on tortoise
