So we need to get one thing straight. Turtles are actually very slow moving creatures. Even the fastest turtle (the soft shell turtle) can only run at speeds between three and four miles an hour. But ...

You wouldn’t normally see the words “turtle” and “lightning-fast” in the same sentence, but common snapping turtles have skills that put Olympic athletes to shame. Although some people in the comments ...

A little Atlantic green sea turtle now named Petunia owes her life to Robert Moraghan, a retired UPS driver who spotted the endangered juvenile stranded at Towd Point, about five miles north of ...