23 April 2023
How many distinct species of Galapagos giant tortoises are there? The latest genetic study says at least five, disputing previous work, and the answer could have implications for their conservation
27 February 2023
The number of cold-stunned sea turtles washing up on Cape Cod in Massachusetts has increased from dozens to hundreds within four decades
12 October 2022
A morphable limb design allows this robot to flip between a sea turtle-like limb for swimming in water to a tortoise’s style for travel on land
13 July 2022
Moving sea turtle eggs to protect them comes with its own risks, as the resulting hatchlings tend to be less well-developed than those that remain in their original location
2 June 2022
Sea turtles have to dash into the sea after they hatch, but young leatherback turtles often get lost on the way because they have relatively poor eyesight
5 October 2020
The InvestEggator is a decoy egg with a GPS transmitter, which researchers placed in sea turtle nests in Costa Rica to track down where they are illegally sold
19 February 2020
The 2.4-metre-long shell found in the Tatacoa desert in Colombia belonged to a giant turtle called Stupendemys geographicus, which was twice the size of the leatherback turtle
6 September 2019
A fossilised turtle from the dinosaur era is flattened and damaged as if it has been stepped on – perhaps by an enormous sauropod dinosaur
