An employee first spotted the turtle in the koi pond. It was Saturday night inside the Wilbur D. May Museum in Reno. No bigger than a small hand, the shelled creature was there –– tentatively, by all ...

Some Midwesterners dream of trading winter for warmth by moving to Florida to start a new life. For Nickel, the green sea turtle in the 90,000-gallon Caribbean Reef exhibit at the Shedd Aquarium, the ...

Lucky might be a better name for a green sea turtle that is being re-released into the wild Tuesday after a second stint being nursed back to health at the Miami Seaquarium. Or maybe Whiskers would be ...