I’m a huge fan of the Pennsylvania Farm Show, in all of its quirky, smelly, mullet-y goodness. You can find me with a milkshake in one hand and a stack ...

The water was shallow and full of muck. We netted one turtle… then another… and they did not match anything typical. Weird shell shapes, jaguar patterns, and even leeches covering them.

Scroll long enough, and you will see barnacles portrayed all over social media as ocean troublemakers. People violently scrape them off ship hulls and sea turtles like they are the problem. In ...

The ocean can be an extremely dangerous place, even for an animal that migrates through and rides its currents for decades.

This Oreo turtle cake is shaped like a charming little tortoise, covered in smooth vanilla cream and decorated with whole chocolate sandwich cookies to create a playful shell pattern. A ...

The year was 1999, and a university student named Yaniv Levy, majoring in marine biology, was taking a walk on the sands of Mikhmoret beach north of Netanya when he happened upon a large sea turtle, ...

We have yet to meet any kid raised in the ’80s or ’90s who doesn’t have fond memories of the heroes in a half shell, yup, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Of course, most of us are now big kids with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — ...

Along the winding rivers and murky wetlands of Texas, an ancient reptilian survivor has been quietly defying the odds. The alligator snapping turtle, a prehistoric-looking creature that has remained ...