Since December 1, staff members with the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island have rescued and rehabilitated more than 500 cold-stunned sea turtles! Cold-stunned is a condition where turtles ...

FORT FISHER, N.C. (WNCN) — Animal care experts at the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher have been taking care of some new temporary residents over the last few weeks Six green sea turtles ...

He’s 107 years old, weighs 120 pounds, and now you can see him up close! Meet Bone Crusher, the Greensboro Science Center’s legendary alligator snapping turtle.

The turtles emerged from eight to 10 different nests from Bald Head Island, North Carolina. The team housed the turtles in individual tanks with controlled water temperatures and a standard diet ...

Now, in a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill report that when turtles are placed inside a magnetic field they have ...

Goforth and her colleagues collected several loggerhead hatchlings on an island off North Carolina. (The turtles were returned to the wild the following summer.) In the lab, the turtles were ...

COLUMBIA, S.C.— Gov. Henry McMaster has signed a bill that bans the commercial trade of native turtles in South Carolina. Following advocacy by the Center for Biological Diversity, Turtle Survival ...

A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides the first empirical evidence that loggerhead sea turtles can learn and remember the unique magnetic ...