Turtles News

"Guardians of the Galaxy" rocketed back to the top spot at the box office as it is proving to be a force to be reckoned with and simply enjoy.

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" shell-shocked the movie world and grabbed a healthy $65 million, which crushed expectations.

UPDATE: "Ninja Turtles" is indeed stomping on "Guardians of the Galaxy" and will win the weekend. Its Friday haul of $25 million will send it to an easy win, and will crush the early projections.

Madrid - Anyone traveling through Madrid's main Atocha railway station in the last twenty years will remember the beautiful, tropical garden in the station's main concourse. What they might not know is that around 300 turtles have happily taken refuge there.

Scientists studying Loggerhead turtles have offered an explanation as to why male and female turtles adopt different strategies for mating. The females always return to their island of birth, however males will mate at multiple locations.

A new report has raised concerns about tourists coming into contact with captured sea turtles, such as those found at holiday attractions like aquariums. The risks relate to toxins and pathogens.

Galapagos tortoise--Lonesome George died unexpectedly Sunday morning at the age of 100. Believed to be the last of his kind, George reportedly died of unknown causes at his home in Ecuador's Galapagos Islands.

A turtle, found by a 13-year-old Pennsylvania boy almost five decades ago, was rediscovered alive and well last week by the boy's father.

It would seem bizarre that turtles would be able to block a runway at New York's huge Kennedy Airport. But it happened Wednesday as a group of about 100 diamondback terrapin turtles closed a runway down for nearly an hour.

Drawing protests from numerous animal rights organizations, street merchants in China are selling live animals sealed in clear plastic bags as ornamental key rings.

One swallow may not make a summer, but snakes and turtles certainly make a spring, if you are in Toronto. Spring in Toronto is very short, so get out and enjoy it while it lasts.

Earlier this summer, Betty Kratzke noticed that something was disturbing the ground near the flowers lining her driveway. Solving the mystery this week, it turned out that baby snapping turtles started crawling around her yard.

A new study says that glow sticks that we tend to use for Halloween may be tempting sea turtles to their deaths.

A second Chinese trawler was seized this week by Malaysian authorites for allegedly poaching endangered turtles and other animals off it's costal waters.

Nearly 90 sea turtles rescued after a cold snap left them comatose have been returned to the Gulf of Mexico. Jeff George, curator at Sea Turtle Inc., a nonprofit turtle rescue group on South Padre Island, said 42 of the endangered juvenile green turtles w

"Jungle" Jack Hanna shows off Mary Kate & Ashley, the two-headed turtle, nice name, it suits the turtle.

The new NT video game uses the same dark and dangerous environments and adventurous themes featured in the new NT CGI film being developed by Imagi Animation Studios and Mirage Licensing.

Turtles live long life with practically ageless organs, calm and sedate lives, their biggest threat is however, the human.