Turtles aren’t known for their speed. In fact, it’s usually quite the opposite. (Slow and steady wins the race and all that.) But one type of turtle is actually incredibly quick, at least with its ...

Fish and Wildlife officers show the turtle tail they found in the pickup. Sea turtles are protected under federal and state law. FWC via KeysInfoNet Two Miami men who were caught with the tail of an ...

Two Miami-area men face felony charges after being caught with the tail of a federally protected loggerhead sea turtle. David Hernandez Sordo, 48, and Pedro Suarez, 59, were jailed in the Keys when ...

Two Miami men pleaded no contest Wednesday in Monroe County Circuit Court to a third-degree felony charge in a case of sea turtle mutilation. David Hernandez-Sordo, 49, and Pedro Suarez, 60, were ...

The sanctuary says the turtle was found near Grand Haven, lethargic and exhausted after being thrown back and forth by waves.

We're all familiar with those awesome armored giants of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods - Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus - and their amazing, weaponized tails. But why aren't similar weaponized ...

In a study covering 300 million years of evolutionary history, researchers have found four necessary components to tail weapon development: size, armor, herbivory and thoracic stiffness. We're all ...