Turtles use hand signals for a number of reasons. This turtle is laying a smackdown, and it could be aggression or flirtation ...

The discovery of ancient fossils often unlocks chapters of history that have long been sealed in the earth’s crust. Among these riveting finds, the uncovering of the oldest turtle fossil in the United ...

This smooth horned frog (Proceratophrys boiei) was among those species considered. See F.S. Campos et al., “Cost-effective conservation of amphibian ecology and evolution,” Science Advances, ...

Just a transistor radio, a hammock, and the possibility of seeing a turtle. It was enough. For Satish Bhaskar, the joy lay not in discovery as much as in the quiet act of observing: measuring ...

Sea turtle eggs in sand hole on a beach at hatchery site. Image via depositphotots. During a routine turtle patrol, park biologists discovered a leatherback sea turtle nest with 93 eggs. The nest was ...