Katie G. Cotterill Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium A rare and endangered baby animal that looks like a “fuzzy watermelon” has a new name, and it’s also a fruit, a Washington zoo said.

Anne is a great white shark tagged by OCEARCH, a nonprofit dedicated to ocean research that tracks more than 440 sharks, dolphins, seals, swordfish, alligators and turtles. Named for a famed 18th ...

Anne is a great white shark tagged by OCEARCH, a nonprofit dedicated to ocean research that tracks more than 440 sharks, dolphins, seals, swordfish, alligators and turtles. Named for a famed ...

Some 4,900 yellow-spotted river turtles, also known as tracajás, have been released into the Igapó-Açu River, in Brazil. The threatened species lives in river basins in northern South America ...

The resulting study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, showed young turtles are active swimmers during their early lives rather than passive drifters.

Feb. 8—Work at the Lee County Athletic Park and the new public library is going smoothly with both projects expected to be finished on time. That's what the county commissioners recently were ...

Australia Zoo is breeding a rare species of turtle discovered by the late Steve Irwin in the 1990s. This will ensure this species lives on, safe from endangerment. In the realm of wildlife ...