A federal judge sentenced Sai Keung Tin, a Chinese citizen, to nearly three years in prison for his role in smuggling ...

Many cultures tell fascinating tales about turtles. Several North American Native tribes speak of a great turtle floating in a primal sea, before there was any land. Here lived all the other animals ...

Bog turtles are North America’s smallest turtles, measuring about the length of a human thumb. They’re also one of the world’s most imperiled turtles: Their southern population has declined by 50% ...

Turtle Island is the name used by some Indigenous peoples for the continent of North America (or the Earth as a whole) and, ...

normally found off the shores of Europe and North America, and the Eastern Pacific green turtle, which has been found in coastal waters from Alaska to Chile. Weighing up to 700 pounds green ...

The playful North American river otter is equally at home ... Fish are a favorite food, but they also eat amphibians, turtles, and crayfish. On land, river otters can bound and run quite well ...

Department of Justice lawyers said the native North American species is coveted by a rising middle class and are worth at least US$2,000 each on the black market. The turtles are native to ...

Loggerhead sea turtles in the North Pacific nest in Japan but cross the Pacific Ocean to feed off the coast of North America near Baja, Mexico. MIGRATION: In the North Pacific, turtles are born in ...

Every day over two months, the scientists changed the magnetic field of the tank between the North American coast and the Gulf of Mexico. The turtles however were only fed when they received the ...