One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping street on the outskirts of ...

A turtle native to WA swallowed an illegal fishing hook used for catching marron in Geraldton. After multiple attempts to get the hook out the turtle had to go the state's wildlife hospital in Perth.

In brief: they've grown thicker shells. The paper documents two sets of field experiments, conducted 20 years apart, measuring the thickness and plasticity in samples of tidal snails. The first ...

The breakthrough came after they attached specially sized geolocator devices to 114 wild sea turtle shells in the waters off the Gulf Coast. This is a standard satellite tag for larger animals.

Shaver, who is chief of sea turtle science and recovery for the National ... The teams placed tracking tags on the turtles’ flippers or shells and released them into the Gulf.