A pet store has bought a two-headed turtle from a collector and plans to keep it on display, the store manager said. The 2-month-old turtle, actually conjoined red-eared slider twins, fits on a silver dollar. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Mitchell Spero said he has spent 10 years training his pet turtle to do things like sit, heel, stay and roll over. Spero, a psychologist, said his turtle, Florida, has helped children deal with the trials and tribulations of life. picked by misswinkle 9 months ago

A leatherback turtle has been tracked swimming from the coast of the Papua province in Indonesia to Oregon, researchers said, in what may be the longest trip for marine vertebrae between breeding and feeding sites. picked by dollyllama 7 months ago

Credit Turtle #72 with the arrest. picked by tigertony 1 month ago

A turtle got stuck in a railway switch in Nagasaki Prefecture on Friday, delaying three trains by up to 46 minutes, the railway operator said. picked by mitzuzake 11 months ago

Researchers from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo have discovered a rare giant turtle in northern Vietnam _ a find that carries great scientific and cultural significance.
Swinhoe's soft-shell turtle was previously thought to be extinct in the wild. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

A two-headed Greek turtle named Janus, named after the Roman god with two heads, officially celebrated its 10th birthday on Wednesday. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A leatherback turtle called Billie won the first Great Turtle Race from Costa Rica to the Galapagos Islands, swimming at a leisurely 5 to 6 kilometres per hour, organisers say. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A disabled turtle has started mating after being fitted with a set of wheels to help her get around. picked by AutumnLotus 2 weeks ago

Nine years after its discovery in the badlands of southeastern Alberta, the 75-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant turtle finally made its public debut Wednesday. picked by AutumnLotus 6 days ago

YORK, Pa. -"in China, a turtle is like a Buddha." It's supposed to bring good luck. Inspectors ordered the restaurant shut down on Friday after finding the turtle and other health code violations. picked by bevissimo 3 months ago

A determined turtle crawled up a flight of stairs and trudged toward Central Park's ice skating rink in an apparent urge to lay eggs near the rink, park officials said. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Zoo Atlanta has hatched a rare Arakan forest turtle, a victory for researchers trying to save the endangered Asian species - one shell at a time. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Wildlife officials counted a record 128 Kemp's ridley sea turtle nests this summer on Texas beaches. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

You cannot make this stuff up! Yes 3 guys apparently made a replica of the Turtle, a one-man, hand-propelled vessel was used in 1776 in a failed attempt to attach a bomb to the hull of a British warship. Naturally, they decided to drive it around the East River...luckily for them it did not dissolve! picked by Moe 1 year ago

The Beal's four-eyed turtle is a Chinese delicacy and zoos in North America and Europe have only 18 of these rare animals. With a birth at the Tennessee Aquarium, there is one more. picked by hisidea 1 year ago

You decide... check out the pictures and try and figure it out picked by ash0283 1 year ago

Anita Lewis sold the ceramic turtle jar containing the ashes of Terrence Lewis's first wife to a woman who planned to use it as a cookie jar-for 58 cents. picked by misswinkle 1 year ago

A woman who swerved to avoid hitting the reptile as it crawled across the northbound lanes of the Garden State Parkway Tuesday afternoon lost control of her car, crashed through a guardrail and tumbled down an embankment before the car flipped over onto its roof. picked by DrNothing 1 year ago

When tourists found a 5-inch green sea turtle bloody and missing three of her flippers, the people who run a hospital for the endangered animals here gave her little chance of survival. But, she's pulled through. picked by MandolinOrange 6 months ago