KEY WEST, Fla. — A 170-pound loggerhead turtle nicknamed “Molly” was back home in the warm waters of the Florida Keys on Tuesday after a successful surgery to remove a life-threatening tumor inches ...

Elton, an endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, was the star of the show on Coney Island Beach on Aug. 6, as he was released into the Atlantic Ocean after a monthslong rehabilitation. The turtle, who ...

Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange plans a special Sea Turtle Sunrise Event on Saturday which will provide an exclusive, intimate experience at the zoo before it opens to the general public. The event, ...

A rare loggerhead turtle has spent its first night at a sea life centre in Dorset after being rescued from a beach in Jersey. The dog walker who found it washed up on 19 January initially thought it ...

Turtle Back Zoo’s black bear named “Jelly” temporarily escaped her enclosure on Thursday morning through an unlocked gate before the zoo opened to the public. The 20-year-old bear walked through an ...

Forget the giraffes, gibbons and leopards. About a dozen visitors at the Turtle Back Zoo in New Jersey gathered one recent morning around the most unusual sight of all. It was a small, light-brown ...

Porkchop appeared eager to go home. Under a blazing sun, the green sea turtle thwapped the surface of the San Gabriel River with her sole front flipper as aquarium staffers gripped her shell. They let ...