A team of Burmese python hunters caught a record breaking 8,000 pounds in snake this season. Meet the man leading the crusade ...

World Turtle Day is celebrated every May 23 to raise awareness about the threats faced by turtles and tortoises. Turtles, tortoises and terrapins, which together make up the order Testudines, have ...

The Friends of the Virgin Islands National Park Sea Turtle Program reported another successful turtle nesting season, with a record-breaking 3,597 hatchlings that made it to sea. According to the 2025 ...

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FOLLY BEACH — Beachgoers have been shell-shocked to see leatherback sea turtles — an endangered species, swimming along the coast of South Carolina. The leatherback is the largest turtle in the world, ...

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCBD) – Some members of the Folly Beach Turtle Watch Program caught a rare sighting at the end of the Folly Beach Pier. The program is used to dealing with loggerheads and green sea ...

Florida's Python Elimination Program pays certified hunters to remove the invasive snakes from the Everglades. Burmese pythons have caused a severe decline in native small mammal populations in South ...

Freshwater extinctions rarely happen overnight, especially in a habitat as large as the Yangtze River. However, it's still possible for a species to dwindle, and dwindle enough so that only a few ...

Loggerhead turtles accounted for the vast majority of nests, with 5,384 recorded. A record number of sea turtle disorientations, 716 instances, were also documented this year. Experts advise beach ...

As recently as August 2024, researchers in Greece documented the non-native Chinese stripe‑necked turtle (Mauremys sinensis) on the island of Lesbos during fieldwork, finding three adults co-occurring ...

The Sea Turtle Hospital at the UF Whitney Laboratory in St. Augustine is launching its Adopt a Washback Sea Turtle program this month. The program runs Oct. 21-31. Those symbolically adopting one of ...