But sea turtles and large land tortoises can live to be much older ... Jonathan the Seychelles giant tortoise is currently the oldest known land animal in the world. Meet Jonathan and some of his ...

Ghost nets floating at sea are a known threat to marine life, including turtles. Spend enough time watching sea turtles and it’s hard to escape how astonishing they are. They soar through oceans ...

Most turtles live in freshwater ponds, lakes or rivers. Others live in the ocean or on land. Some even live in forests or the ...

Per the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, cold-stunning occurs when water temperatures drop below 50 degrees, which is too cold for sea turtles to maintain their body temperature.

(AP) — An arctic blast that brought a rare snowfall to northern Florida last week left green sea turtles as far south as St. Augustine suffering from a condition known as cold stunning. Seventeen sea ...

The octopus just revealed another one of its secrets: what determines its sex. University of Oregon researchers have ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An arctic blast that brought a rare snowfall to northern Florida last week left green sea turtles as far ...

But most of these 1,200 sea turtles were lucky. The wind and currents had carried their motionless bodies ashore, where, at least, they could be found. Last week’s extraordinary storm that ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A police officer checks the carcass of one of the endangered olive ridley sea turtles that washed ashore on ...

Researchers have identified a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus. This chromosome has likely been around for 480 million years, since before octopuses split apart from the nautilus on ...

The loggerhead sea turtle, also known as Caretta caretta, is considered a vulnerable species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Every year, around 10,000 loggerheads are caught ...