Snapping turtles are not the kind of animal that most people think of as "cute" with their funnel-shaped noses, thick, warty bodies, and armored tails. Box turtles are cute. Sea turtles are adorable.

Boxed in by a freeway, a golf course and a neighborhood, it’s a miracle that San Francisco’s Mountain Lake even exists. But not only is the tiny lake—located on the south end of the city’s Presidio ...

Baby sea turtles are an impressive example of nature’s engineering prowess. (Also, they are adorable.) The beaches on which they are born are plagued with predators looking to snatch up a quick turtle ...

The holiday season can be a stressful time for people, with travel, budgets, families and sky high expectations. That’s why it’s important to take a moment and breathe. And in case you can’t remember ...

Despite a nearly 40-year ban on the sale of tiny turtles in the U.S., the small reptiles are still being sold — and still making people sick, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported ...

Baby sea turtles don’t really need our help being adorable, but remarkably, scientists have figured out a way to make the tiny shelled reptiles even more mind-numbingly cute: by hypnotizing them. Mohd ...

The power of a baby face knows no limit. As chief of the Appellate Division of the South Dakota U.S. attorney’s office, Kevin Koliner applies the full weight of the federal government to prosecuting ...

May 23 is World Turtle Day, a date that advocates for the protection and conservation of the world’s hundreds of turtle species. Turtles are threatened by the illegal pet trade, habitat destruction, ...