BBC footage shows baby painted turtles frozen solid through winter, then miraculously thaw and come back to life ...

GALLERY: Wellington marks 30th anniversary with surprise Billy Joel performance Fireworks, carnival rides -- and Billy Joel. Wellington marked its 30th anniversary Friday with a surprise performance ...

Turtles are generally thought of as silent creatures, but recent evidence has emerged that at least 47 turtle species make some form of sound. Those sounds communicate various messages, from social ...

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An aquarium in South Africa is stretched beyond capacity after more than 500 baby sea turtles were washed up on beaches by a rare and powerful storm and rescued by ...

Researchers re-examined a plant fossil found decades ago in Colombia and realized that it wasn't a plant at all: it's a fossilized baby turtle. It's a rare find, because juvenile turtles' shells are ...

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Sea turtles famously lay their eggs in nests on sandy beaches. And then a couple of months later, droves of tiny turtle hatchlings emerge from eggs that look a little bit like ping-pong balls, and ...

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The North Texas Wildlife Center rarely gives cute names to the injured, orphaned and sick animals coming through its front door. Its team is too busy trying to save the lives of the 2,500 critters ...

From the 1950s to the 1970s, a Colombian priest named Padre Gustavo Huertas collected rocks and fossils near a town called Villa de Levya. Two of the specimens he found were small, round rocks ...