Little spiny softshell turtles that had been in ECHO's care were released into Lake Champlain at North Hero State Park on ...

A dead reptile of its kind washed up on the shores of Dong Mo Lake in Vietnam, measuring 156 cm. long and weighing 93 kg. The Yangtze giant softshell turtle is now on the brink of extinction. On ...

An animal rescue organization in Ireland is urging the public to not adopt turtles and other exotic pets unless they can properly care for them after a Chinese soft-shell turtle was found abandoned.

In a central valley in India, a very rare turtle was photographed and misidentified for nearly a decade. Getty Images/iStock Photo Nearly a decade ago, researchers in the central valley of Manipur, ...

On June 22, the breeding industrial park of Matibie, a local breed of soft-shelled turtle, in Huangsigang town, Huangchuan county in Central China’s Henan Province, was enjoying a stable and ...

Scientists have developed and validated a first-of-its-kind, portable environmental DNA (eDNA) test to help detect the world's rarest turtle, the Swinhoe's softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei), which ...

Everyone loves turtles. And no wonder: long-lived, unhurried, and ancient, these shelled reptiles are fascinating. Turtles are also endlessly surprising. There are turtles with soft shells, turtles ...

Turtles are instantly recognized by the shell on their backs, but across species, there are some incredibly unique heads that ...

Turtles represent one of the most ancient and morphologically diverse lineages of reptiles, with extant species spanning marine, freshwater and terrestrial habitats. Phylogenetic studies have long ...