What is a group of turtles called? Learn the collective nouns like bale and flotilla for these amazing reptiles.

Volunteers say patrols will be reduced at Padre Island National Seashore during Kemp's ridley sea turtle nesting season.

Volunteers say patrols will be reduced at Padre Island National Seashore during Kemp's ridley sea turtle nesting season.

Baby long-necked dinosaurs might have been the fast food of the Jurassic Period. A detailed food web of the time, ...

Tucked away at the end of a barely marked gravel road in rural Berkeley County — and behind an electrified, barbed-wire fence and an automatic gate with several security cameras — is a haven for ...

New research is revealing that baby sea turtles do not simply drift on ocean currents during their first epic journey. Instead, they carry a built‑in magnetic sense that lets them read Earth’s field ...

Precocial animals, the ones that move autonomously within hours after hatching or birth, have many biases they are born with ...

This unsupervised strategy can help not only inexperienced animals, but also artificial intelligence, as it reduces the need for training. It is surprising how much intelligence is present in animals ...

The NICC tournament is a fishing tradition with a goal to encourage interest early in children, and to introduce ice fishing ...

About 150 million years ago, the land that is now the western United States was alive with dinosaurs. New research shows that ...

Despite growing into the largest animals ever to walk on land, sauropods began life small, exposed, and alone. Fossil evidence suggests their babies were frequently eaten by multiple predators, making ...

Turtles are often seen as slow and harmless, but their differences are far more extreme than most people expect. This tier ...