One of the world's old turtles has shed its tracking device after being freed from its aquarium - and is now heading towards the warm waters of Rio de Janeiro. Jorge, a loggerhead turtle, spent 40 ...

The Rio Grande cooter can’t catch a break. Rivers that once sustained the turtle species, native to New Mexico, Texas and Mexico, are now more intermittent as snowpack and rain declines, according to ...

Green sea turtles in Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay have started to see some relief from fibropapillomatosis, a herpes-like virus that causes tumors, after cleanup efforts in the bay. (Carioca Turtles ...