Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A turtle basking with its legs outstretched on a rock. This activity is normal and beneficial to turtles. Basking helps the ...

As little as 9,000 years ago, a sofa-sized turtle paddled around the Brazilian Amazon. The finding, based on a fossilized jawbone, reveals that some of the most massive turtles ever lived relatively ...

"Among fossil turtles, the range of body sizes is even more pronounced," says Dr. Gabriel Ferreira of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, ...

MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — A veterinarian has removed a 2-foot-long (0.61-meter-long) eel from the body cavity of a loggerhead sea turtle in the Florida Keys. Dr. Brooke Burkhalter needed three hours ...