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Los Angeles’ airports and seaports have become major exit points for turtles and tortoises smuggled to overseas markets, with social media helping fuel demand for rare species, and smugglers often ...

“Eastern box turtles are already beautifully painted — by nature,” a wildlife rehabber said Wilderness Trail Wildlife Center A new homeowner discovered a painted Eastern box turtle and contacted a ...

When a tiny diamondback terrapin emerged from its egg on Cape Cod this summer, it had everything a turtle hatchling should have: four legs, a patterned shell and a short tail. Except instead of one ...

Yellow-morph green sea turtles in the Galápagos surprised scientists by staying remarkably close to home instead of making the long journeys typically associated with sea turtles. Satellite tracking ...

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Historic sea turtle eggs discovered along the Southern California coastline have been relocated to the Aquarium of the Pacific ahead of this weekend’s hazardous surf, which threatened to wash away the ...

More than 200 eggs from the first documented natural sea turtle nests on the U.S. West Coast were moved Friday from two Orange County beaches to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach due to ...

When researchers observed an olive ridley sea turtle digging a nest and laying eggs at a Southern California beach in September, it was considered a first. More specifically, it was the “first-ever ...

Video shows the first-ever natural nesting on record of a sea turtle on the U.S. West Coast, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Three days later, a sea turtle was seen ...

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A sea turtle currently nesting on a Southern California beach is the first known sea turtle on record to nest naturally anywhere on the West Coast, according to NOAA Fisheries. An olive ridley sea ...