Galápagos giant tortoises are known for reaching impressive sizes. One such reptile's massive measurements blew even his brethren out of the water.

This species is identified as “one of the world’s largest freshwater turtles.” During the late Pleistocene, the armored reptile existed for around 40,000 to 9,000 years. Maturin is named ...

A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, the largest piece of plastic debris reported ingested by the species, researchers said.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— Following a petition and legal victory from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed protecting the alligator snapping turtle under ...

Its flippers lack claws and are the largest, in proportion to body size, of any sea turtle. As the largest living turtle species, the leatherback reaches up to 10 feet in length and weighs an average ...

Leatherbacks are the largest turtles on Earth ... Leatherbacks have the widest global distribution of all reptile species, and possibly of any vertebrate. They can be found in the tropic and ...

Weighing up to 700 pounds green turtles are among the largest sea turtles in the world ... Green turtles are listed as an endangered species. Despite this, they are still killed for their meat ...

More than two dozen turtles made of rice made by Sun Yi-chung’s (孫一中) team since the Lunar New Year holiday began can be seen in more than 20 temples across the county, with the smallest weighing 60kg ...

These turtles were identified as olive ridley turtles, an endangered species that once claimed the largest population of sea turtles on Earth. Why are these creatures washing up? Olive ridley ...