With populations spanning all 67 counties, gopher tortoises are far too busy as Florida’s only native tortoise species for ...

Tellem and her husband launched ATR in 1990 as the first national turtle and tortoise rescue in the U.S. World Turtle Day was launched to increase respect and knowledge about one of the world's ...

Today we celebrate World Turtle Day, a special day dedicated not only to showing our love for these wonderful creatures, but also protecting them and keeping their home clean to make sure they don ...

March 26 is National Spinach Day and Manatee Appreciation Day. Star Trek fans may celebrate Live Long and Prosper Day. But for Detroit Red Wings fans, it will always be “Turtle Day.” ...

They were so numerous during Columbus’s day that “it seemed the ships ... mostly by other turtles. Costa Rica’s national government allows the few hundred residents of Ostional to legally ...

There are many miles of beach along the Texas coast, meaning that most beach visitors will not see a nesting Kemp's ridley sea turtle. However, the Kemp's ridley is known for emerging to nest in the ...

This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... It's easy to believe that a half-ton turtle eats its weight in jellyfish a day. The jellyfish were surely around ...