If you were crossing the U.S. 98 Causeway over Mobile Bay yesterday afternoon, you might have caught sight of a man, tall and bearded, running down the side of the highway carrying a giant turtle. I ...

Soft-shelled turtles refuse to be typecast. Unlike their bulky, slow-moving cousins, soft-shelled turtles have adaptations for speed both on the land and in the water. The soft-shelled turtle is found ...

After peaking in 2022 with hundreds of green sea turtle strandings, cases of soft-shell syndrome are in decline. It is believed the disease is connected to the turtles' food source, after seagrass ...

A new study finds that turtles are really good at carrying the bacteria that cause the potentially fatal disease. You can catch cholera from drinking contaminated water. You can catch it from raw or ...

You can catch cholera from drinking contaminated water. You can catch it from raw or undercooked shellfish. And you can catch it from soft-shell turtles. That's the finding of a study published ...