Forget the giraffes, gibbons and leopards. About a dozen visitors at the Turtle Back Zoo in New Jersey gathered one recent morning around the most unusual sight of all. It was a small, light-brown ...

Aaron Koelker’s map of map turtles is one of our favorite examples of how shape can influence and enhance a map. For our next Behind the Map, we spoke with Koelker, a member of the Geospatial Services ...

HAWAII -- A man was caught on video picking up a sea turtle on a beach in Hawaii, sparking outrage among many. In the video, the man is seen grabbing and propping the animal up so a woman can take a ...

Volunteers on the Outer Banks have rescued 161 sea turtles left "cold-stunned" by freezing temperatures, transporting the region's signature reptiles to a nearby aquarium to recover. The N.C. Aquarium ...