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Around the world, many conservationists are celebrating increases in sea turtle population growth. Cape Verde in West Africa now has 100 times as many loggerhead turtle nests each year as there were ...

Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an apparently fate-tempting plea. "I kept joking through that whole class, ...

The Turtle Survival Center, run by the Turtle Survival Alliance, exists to buy time for species that no longer have much of it. Founded in 2013 in South Carolina, the center functions as a ...

An underpass installed beneath a busy stretch of road in Eliot a few years ago has led to ‘a substantial reduction in turtle mortalities,’ according to a state biologist. A Blanding’s turtle in the ...

Pennsylvania’s legendary Punxsutawney Phil isn’t the only rodent that emerges on Groundhog Day each year to make a “prediction” about whether we will have a long winter or an early spring. New Jersey ...

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Deep in the coastal woods of South Carolina, behind high fences, guard dogs, and security cameras, is a group of people who know more about turtles than you. Posters and paintings of turtles and ...

Scientists have been closely monitoring a map turtle population after 10 percent died in 2022. They found a surprising culprit, and are left concerned for the future. A female northern map turtle ...

A radical, pro-Palestinian group known as the Turtle Island Liberation Front plotted to carry out coordinated bombings against several targets in Southern California beginning on New Year’s Eve, ...

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Over the last few weeks, volunteers have braved bitter winds and freezing temperatures to patrol Cape Cod’s bayside beaches at night, sweeping their flashlight beams along the last high-tide line ...