William Shockley and his teenage son are fishing for freshwater turtles the same way their family has done for four generations in south-central Florida: deploying about a mile of nylon line on four ...

An ancient species, the Yangtze giant softshell turtle, faces extinction with only two known wild survivors. Habitat loss, pollution, and failed breeding attempts have decimated this giant freshwater ...

An extremely rare species of turtle is facing extinction after the last-known female of its kind died at a zoo in southern China. The Yangtze giant softshell turtle, one of only four known to be left ...

The only known female member of one of the world's rarest turtle species has died at a zoo in southern China. The animal was one of four Yangtze giant softshell turtles known to be remaining in the ...

Spiny soft-shelled turtles spend most of their time in faster-moving water where they dine on small fish, mussels and crayfish. Their shell, called a carapace, is smooth on the top with small spines ...

Prashant Rai, inspector-in-charge of the GRP station at the Malda Town station, says the turtles were rescued from a general compartment of the Malda-bound Farakka Express Some of the Ganges ...

One of the world's largest turtles, said to be on the brink of extinction, has been found in abundance in a former Khmer Rouge stronghold in Cambodia. Conservationists discovered an 11kg (24lb) female ...