Last fall, a routine day of rockhounding on Bureau of Land Management–managed public land in southwest Wyoming turned into an ...

UPDATE: Turtle Creek Mall in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was placed on lockdown Friday afternoon following reports of a possible active shooter. Turtle Creek Mall in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was placed ...

Humongous Turtle Shell Unearthed. This shows an 8-million-year-old turtle shell that measured nearly 8 feet (2.4 meters) was discovered in Venezuela. A couple renovated their kitchen—and stumbled upon ...

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — Clearwater parents Kaitlyn and Tim McCallum immediately knew there was an issue with their newborn son, James, when he was born. Kaitlyn delivered James in August, 2021. When ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Scientists have confirmed for the first time that Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles, one of the world’s most endangered species, are nesting on Ship Island off the Mississippi Coast.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The leatherback sea turtle offers a rare look into ...

Florida's beaches—particularly those in Palm Beach County—are among the world's most vital nesting grounds for loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta), accounting for 90% of all loggerhead nests in ...

For years, the Coleman family's fishing trips on the Alabama Gulf Coast were routine. But in 2021, their outing near a riverbank led to an odd find: the shell of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea ...

Aug. 25 (UPI) --The Missouri Department of Conservation celebrated the 41st birthday of Peanut, a red-eared slider turtle with a unique figure eight-shaped shell. The department celebrated Peanut's ...

KIRKWOOD, Mo. (KWCH) - Peanut the Turtle, a symbol against litter for 40 years, is celebrating her 41st birthday. Unlike the famous Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Peanut’s distinctive figure-eight ...

A federal judge has ordered Mississippi to redraw its Supreme Court electoral map, after finding that the map dilutes the power of Black voters.U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock ruled the map, which ...