In April 2022, a researcher made a grim discovery at the bottom of a lake in eastern Ontario: 142 dead Northern map turtles with smashed shells and missing limbs, scattered across the floor of ...

This photograph taken on February 3, 2023, shows turtles at the refuge of the Pairi Daiza Foundation in Brugelette. - The foundation takes care of abandoned reptiles and amphibians. The refuge ...

It started with the mysterious discovery of more than a hundred turtles, some with their shells smashed, others dismembered, all of them dead. It ended with a potential warning for the future. It was ...

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 ...

View of remains of Olive Ridley turtles at Mismaloya beach on the Pacific coast of Jalisco State, Mexico, on December 9, 2012. According to the University of Guadalajara staff, 30 percent of the ...

A researcher who had spent two decades watching turtles at the same lake stumbled onto something he’d never seen before: a mass grave. In April 2022, biologist Grégory Bulté discovered 142 dead ...