These teensy tiny turtles of Appalachia barely survived a biblical flood. Inside the effort to build them a new home.

Sturgeon have roamed rivers largely unchanged since the age of dinosaurs, growing large enough to fuel monster legends across ...

These teensy tiny turtles of Appalachia barely survived a biblical flood. Inside the effort to build them a new home.

PHUKET - An entangled olive ridley sea turtle was rescued from a discarded fishing net after being found in a distressed state on the Karon beach shoreline on Monday.

An unusual turtle video from Texas is gaining some attention online, with the animal appearing to wear a thick coat of green algae on its shell. The heavy algal growth gave the turtle built-in ...

Earth's skies are about to be graced by a full Moon, plump and shining in the sky, swimming across a lake of stars like a giant sturgeon. Okay, maybe not, but the full Moon that will rise on Friday 8 ...

These reptiles have roamed the oceans for 100 million years. We've put them at risk, but with a little help, they're rebounding. Green sea turtles congregate near a dock in the Bahamas. They were so ...

Along the murky depths of Atlantic coastal waters swims a living fossil that has remained largely unchanged for more than 100 million years. The Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus) predates many ...

Adults are tiny: ~7.6-8.9 cm long and ~0.0020-0.0030 kg in mass (often ~0.0024 kg).