When a massive adult female Kemp’s ridley sea turtle washed ashore on March 7 near Beach Pocket Park #3 in Galveston, she was barely moving. Her shell was crusted over with barnacles, algae and ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, so it’s no surprise that many of the plants and animals chosen as symbols of the two states it straddles - North ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — For more than four decades, the Texas coast has been ground zero in the fight to save endangered sea turtles, from rescuing cold-stunned animals to protecting fragile nests ...

Eastern box turtles are declining due to slow reproduction, habitat fragmentation, road mortality, and agricultural hazards. Researchers track turtles using radio telemetry and GPS loggers to map ...