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

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!

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...