One Reddit user was surprised when a snapping turtle showed up to use their newly made garden bed as a nesting site.

KEY WEST, FLA. (WSVN) - A loggerhead sea turtle that was caught in a crab trap line has returned home after getting a helping hand in Key West. The massive loggerhead, named Molly, spent three months ...

Sargassum seaweed is creating major new obstacles for sea turtle hatchlings, drastically slowing their crawl to the ocean and increasing their risk from predators and heat. Despite the physical ...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY — The Miami Dade Sheriff’s Office freed a loggerhead turtle entangled in a crab trap line on Oct. 11. The Marine Patrol Unit responded to a call from a Good Samaritan in vessel about ...

Deputies from the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Marine Patrol Unit rescued a loggerhead sea turtle that had become entangled in a crab trap line over the weekend. The turtle was rescued in Florida waters off ...

Scientists on an Indonesia island found a “giant” creature caught in a trap, the area’s first sighting of an endangered species, photos show. Photo from Hasan, Rahmawati, Guntoro, South, Valen, Tamam, ...

We dropped the trap and waited... but it wasn’t just turtles that showed up. Wild pond babies of all shapes and sizes made their way in, and every one was cuter than the last. This one’s full of life.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A massive alligator was caught with a turtle in its jaw on a Florida golf course last week. Casey Yarbrough was in the fairway on the 14th hole at a Naples golf course on March 20 ...

Minnesota’s turtles got new protections as of Monday, Jan. 1. In 2023, state lawmakers approved a law eliminating the commercial harvest of two species — western painted turtles and snapping turtles.

MINNEAPOLIS — Trapping turtles for profit will soon be a thing of the past in Minnesota. Starting next January, commercial harvesting of the state's wild turtles will no longer be legal. It's a move ...