Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- A giant green sea turtle that was snagged by a fisherman's hook is on its way back home, after being treated and released to the ocean by the Aquarium of the Pacific. The ...

Several cultures portray the world as being carried on the back of a giant turtle. As it turns out, sea turtles really do house an entire world on their backs — one of microscopic organisms, that is!

The prognosis is good for a giant sea turtle that was rescued in New Caledonia, a French overseas territory located in the South Pacific Ocean. The female loggerhead turtle, which experts estimate is ...

A pair of giant sea turtles normally found in warm waters off South America made a rare appearance on Scotland’s southern coast this week. The loggerhead turtles washed up in the Solway Firth and are ...

A giant sea turtle described as "like a swimming dinosaur" is clinging to life at the New England Aquarium after it was rescued from a mud flat near the tip of Cape Cod. The 7-foot-long, 655-pound ...

A giant sea turtle has been found by a walker on the beach next to Southerness Golf Club on the Solway Coast. Valerie Smith Lang came across the reptile on Thursday evening after it had been washed up ...