"It took him a while but once he got going, he was moving at great speed," said one caregiver of Lou's swimming Benjamin VanHoose is the Senior News Editor on the TV team at PEOPLE. He has written ...

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A diver from Florida had an unforgettable underwater encounter when a curious turtle decided to follow him upstream. The video starts with the diver swimming up to retrieve his camera from deeper ...

While on a camping trip, a 15-year-old boy named Evan Budz from Burlington, Ontario, spotted a snapping turtle swimming ...

Eleven leatherback turtles are swimming across the Pacific Ocean to the Galapagos Islands in a "race" that will be tracked online to draw attention to the plight of the critically endangered creatures ...

What looks and feels like a river rock, has four webbed feet, a pointy snout with beady eyes, buries itself during winter, and dines on small frogs, fish, aquatic insects and plants? These are ...

Late November has three important seasonal events happening in the region as we move toward winter. I expect the ground to freeze during these chilly days. Also responding to the colder temperatures, ...

Goody the sea turtle lost her left flipper years ago after she got stuck in a fishing net. She was left immobile — until a team of researchers in Thailand fitted her with the country's first ...

When baby sea turtles hatch from their buried eggs, they use their powerful flippers to make their way up through the sand. A new "sand-swimming" robot, inspired by those hatchlings, could one day ...

Late November is our time of freeze-up. Freezing has been occurring for weeks by this time, but up until now, the ice has formed on smaller and shallow bodies of water: Ponds and swamps have carried a ...