Mexican authorities said Friday they had rescued over 3,400 protected baby turtles stuffed into cardboard boxes set to be trafficked. During a roadblock in the southern state of Chiapas, agents found ...

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Between mid-December and early January, millions of baby river turtles emerged from the sandy beaches of the Amazon’s Guaporé/Inténez River. Located along the border between Brazil and Bolivia, this ...

Scientists along the border of Brazil and Bolivia recorded the largest freshwater hatch of freshwater baby turtles in the world.

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Australian freshwater turtles support healthy wetlands and rivers. Yet one in three turtle species is threatened with extinction. And there is still much we don't know about them. In a special issue ...

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One of North America’s largest publicly viewable collections of freshwater turtles is a little bit bigger and even more ...