The eastern box turtle is celebrating 30 years as the most highly honored reptile in the Great Smoky Mountains. Here's how it won that status.

To start off, dozens of North Carolina baby sea turtles have hatched at the southern Outer Banks at Cape Lookout National Seashore and in Brunswick County on Holden Beach -- with hundreds more to ...

A herd of just over 100 wild horses roams the Corolla area of the northern Outer Banks. They are tended by the nonprofit ...

Each winter, hundreds of sea turtles wash ashore on Cape Cod, cold-stunned by frigid water that leaves them unable to move or feed.

Researchers at Loggerhead Marinelife Center found the earliest leatherhead nest in its monitoring history on February 25. What could this mean?

Two people died and one was injured in a plane crash in Mocksville, North Carolina, while trying to avoid a turtle on the runway.

Minnesota summers mean turtles are on the move, and a new app helps them cross roads safely."I moved into a house at the intersection of two ponds, and I noticed turtles crossing frequently and ...

MOCKSVILLE, N.C. — The pilot of a small plane that crashed near a North Carolina airport this month had raised a wheel after landing to avoid hitting a turtle on the runway, according to a ...

Today was a great day to be a sea turtle, wild and free in Nantucket Sound. Staff and volunteers from the New England Aquarium released 17 endangered and threatened turtles at West Dennis Beach ...

A Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book series, based on the Paramount+ streaming series, is coming this fall.

Onlookers lined the edge of a roped-off area as each turtle was lifted from a plastic bin and set gingerly on the sand. With a little help getting past the seaweed, the turtles used their flippers ...

For the last four years, Sydney Simpson has been spending turtle nesting season walking along roadways and trails in Point Pelee.Simpson, a resource management technician at the park, says it's all ...