A demonstration of how not to handle a snapping turtle turned into a cringe-inducing illustration when the turtle bit its handler and refused to let go. A video of the incident was posted Jan. 30 on ...

Australia's unique biodiversity is under siege. The national list of species threatened with extinction is growing, with eight animals and five plants added just last month. Among them is the pig ...

The team was alerted about an Olive Ridley sea turtle on the beach with a foreign thorn-like material in its nose. Marine biologist, Dr. Nathan J. Robinson and the Leatherback Trust team spotted an ...

Narrator: You've probably seen this video. That's a plastic straw being pulled out of a sea turtle's nose. The video went viral in 2015 sparking a public outcry to "say no to plastic straws." ...

Sea turtle nesting on the beach. Image by GretelW, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Sea turtles exhibit one of ...

Holm remembers scanning the landscape for a nearby deer or beaver. "And then all of a sudden we saw this nose in the water," she recounted. A giant snapping turtle had stealthily emerged and taken ...

The dragonfly unexpectedly landed on the turtle’s nose, but instead of snapping up the insect, the turtle appeared to be experiencing pleasure from the interaction as they shared a moment in the midst ...