In the 2003 film ‘Finding Nemo,’ the protagonist Marlin, a clownfish, asks Crush, a sea turtle how old he is. Crush hollers: “Hundred and fifty, dude! And still young!” Reptiles frequently get ...

From local ponds and the deep sea to a tank in your bedroom, turtles can be found anywhere. These aquatic, semi-aquatic or terrestrial creatures are recognizable thanks to their bony, cartilaginous ...

A critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle came out of nowhere, surprising marine biologists as they filmed biofluorescence in sharks and coral reefs. Marine biologists made a shocking discovery ...

Alligator snapping turtles have a hard, armor-like shell and a sharp beak. A 100-year-old giant alligator snapping turtle is at large after mysteriously disappearing somewhere along Interstate 40 in ...

Locally, turtles' nesting season runs from about mid-May to mid-June. Motorists kill thousands of turtles trying to cross roads to get to their nesting sites. Seven of the state's 10 native turtle ...

Professor by night, park ranger by day, protector of sea turtles always. That was the late Hank Smith, a unique person in Florida’s environmental history. I knew him as a colleague at Florida Atlantic ...