A large leatherback sea turtle — an endangered species in Canada — was found dead on the shores of Fernwood, P.E.I. It was caught in fishing gear, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans told ...

I grabbed my phone right away because this ginormous animal was just kind of cruising by us,' Victoria Bradshaw said after ...

This turtle was found in Port Lome, N.S., in 2017. (Submitted by Canadian Sea Turtle Network) The water temperatures are getting colder, and for sea turtles, this could be bad news.

Swiss Journal of Palaeontology (2021). [2] Multilocus phylogeny and statistical biogeography clarify the evolutionary history of major lineages of turtles. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ...

A B.C. nurse has documented a giant sea turtle swimming off the coast of Haida Gwaii, a collection of islands off B.C.'s northwest coast — a sighting that's being celebrated by conservation ...

By any measure, the turtle ranks among evolution’s most unusual experiments. Its signature adaptation, a hard shell made of fused and highly modified rib bones, sets it apart from all other ...

An endangered green turtle that drifted into water that was too cold for it is happily swimming in a roomy, warm-water tank in Bermuda after being found hypothermic on a Nova Scotia beach and reared ...

A new study from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) reveals that turtles use these two distinct processes to develop their scales in different regions of their heads. These findings suggest that the ...

In vertebrates, the formation of feathers, hair, and scales is typically governed by molecular genetic factors. However, crocodile head scales are an exception, as they form through a purely ...