Turtle hospitals and aquariums across the country are caring for sea turtles that stranded on beaches during the winter season, which is now coming to a close amid an uptick in strandings along ...

Sturgeons are one of the oldest groups of fishes. Sporting an armor of five rows of bony, modified scales called dermal scutes and a shark-like tail fin, this group of several-hundred-pound beasts ...

The Georgia Sea Turtle Center in Jekyll Island is a great weekend trip from Atlanta, Savannah, or Jacksonville and should be on any animal lover's Georgia bucket list! In this post, I will share ...

Larry Running Turtle Salazar, a local Indigenous activist and educator, died at 68 years old. Salazar fought for the proper treatment of Native American burial grounds discovered in Corpus Christi ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

For most older Millennials, your scariest movie theater experience wasn’t seeing Casey Becker get stabbed in Scream, it wasn’t Samara coming out of the TV in The Ring, and it wasn’t even ...

A turtle native to WA swallowed an illegal fishing hook used for catching marron in Geraldton. After multiple attempts to get the hook out the turtle had to go the state's wildlife hospital in Perth.

Sea turtles are considered one of the oldest living species on Earth, but it’s been a mystery where their babies go after heading out to sea. Known as their “lost years,” the lack of ...

ANSONIA — Local animal control officials are searching for the person responsible for abandoning a pair of tortoises near the Quillinan Reservoir, city officials said. The turtles died after ...

There has been an increase in abandoned pets across the state. Now even exotic animals are being left behind and recently, two tortoises were discovered in Ansonia. They were found in a wooded ...

PHOENIX — Rosie Lopez has owned Stella and Oliver, her two beloved tortoises, for a decade. Recently, they were brazenly stolen in broad daylight from the backyard of her Phoenix home.