Some Midwesterners dream of trading winter for warmth by moving to Florida to start a new life. For Nickel, the green sea turtle in the 90,000-gallon Caribbean Reef exhibit at the Shedd Aquarium, the ...

Pufferfish swimming in aquarium tank against with blue background.© Sreadya.k/Shutterstock.com Turtles are not the fastest of movers on land, but in the water, they have amazing reflexes. A turtle in ...

SAINT CLAIR – Growing up in the 1960s and ’70s in Arnots Addition, Nannette Brophy Major was raised in a household that always had a variety of pets including cats, dogs, birds, fish, hamsters, ...

If the Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery & Aquarium were to name all its turtles, good choices might include Picasso, Matisse or even Monet. That’s because the turtles are using their bellies to paint ...

It was a day full of surprises. When anglers Carter Andrews and Chase Cornell started drifting live crabs over a reef, they didn’t expect to pull up a mangrove snapper, let alone a 10-pound behemoth.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will add new protections for a rare turtle whose ridged shell looks like a topographic map, with the goal of keeping it from going extinct. The federal agency has ...

Sammy and Ray, leatherback turtles and friends forever, are enjoying an atoll's water and sand, shepherding new hatchlings Ricky and Ella out to sea. Suddenly, a poacher swoops in and ships them off ...