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The discovery of the highly endangered Kemp's ridley turtle has prompted a $380 million restoration plan for 13 miles of ...

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This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — until a changing planet proved too much for even the largest ...

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One Reddit user was surprised when a snapping turtle showed up to use their newly made garden bed as a nesting site.

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Find out which animals live the longest and what clues this gives us for potentially slowing down human aging.

The small Indian mongoose was introduced to Hawaii in the 1800s to control rats in sugarcane fields. Instead, it began hunting almost everything smaller than itself. Native birds, reptiles, and even ...

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An apex predator threatening a key sector in the U.S. Pacific Northwest is now the unlikely source of a bipartisan alliance in the House of Representatives. Sea lions and their impact on salmon are a ...