The endangered Vallarta mud turtle faces severe habitat loss in Mexico, leaving its tiny surviving population at urgent risk.

Researchers in Colombia have identified a 13-million-year-old turtle species and named it Shakiremys colombiana in honor of ...

Just when they think they grabbed the rare morph, another one appears, covered in mud and coated in leeches. The video captures every messy second as they fight to net the creature before it vanishes ...

Discover how North America’s amphibians and reptiles survive winter’s chill. From freeze-tolerant wood frogs to ...

A juvenile orange-fronted parakeet seized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement at the Otay Mesa ...

In October, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at California’s Otay Mesa border crossing noticed an odd bulge ...

It can be hard for a bird with a broken wing, an orphaned baby squirrel or a sick opossum to survive in the wild. But there are wildlife rehabilitation centers such as the Schuylkill Center or ...

The discovery of Australia’s oldest known crocodile eggshells is giving UNSW scientists new insight into the animals and ecosystems that existed millions of years ago, long before Australia separated ...

In the 1950s, investors bought in, and by the end of the decade, St. Armands Circle was being called the Worth Avenue of ...

December, darkness, holiday lights, songs about partridges in pear trees and turtledoves and calling birds – what the heck ...

The most famous petrified forest in the U.S. is out west in Arizona, but Mississippi has its own forest full of petrified ...

These tiny turtles may be small now, but they play a big role in Alabama’s coastal ecosystems, and visitors can help support ...