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Sea Turtles Do Not Like Cold Stun In the Conservation section read more about two sea turtles that return home after two years of treatment ; Read more about another cold stun wave in NC or about the relocation of Gopher tortoises in the Ecology section ; Finally, in the Health and Medical section we highlight the death of a 12-year old tortoise. Turtle News […]

40 Shells of Critically Endangered Turtles Found Despite being Critically Endangered, the hawksbill sea turtle is still being hunted in China for its shell which is a famous decoration due to its beauty. 40 shells of hawksbill sea turtles have been found in four nappy bags at the Shenzhen border crossing on Tuesday night. No information were given regarding any arrests. Turtle News From Around

Radiated Tortoise Could Go Extinct In The Wild Faster Than Expected The Turtle Survival Alliance conducted surveys in 2014 in southern Madagascar regarding the poaching crisis. Everything looked good until they conducted another survey in 2015. A massive poaching crisis resurfaced in 2015 with records number of live tortoises confiscated. As a consequence, the species is declining faster than what we thought and the species

Fences Prevent Sea Turltes From Falling Off A Cliff On Raine Island, a cliff was formed with erosion, leading sea turtles to fall and die. Fences were installed and it is now preventing turtles to fall off. In the section Conservation read more about two sea turtle release as well as a group that received a grant for the conservation project. In Ecology, I encourage

Smartphones Used To Save Gopher Tortoises New technologies are used to save the Gopher Tortoise, see the Conservation section. In the same section find out about the release of a sea turtle and about a sea turtle that laid 127 eggs last night. In the Misc section check out that contest and play to name a baby sea turtle at the Maui Ocean Center Turtle

A New Species Of Prehistoric Turtle Xiaochelys ningchengensis named by Chang-Fu Zhou of Shenyang Normal University in Shenyang, China, and Márton Rabi of the University of Tübingen in Tübingen, Germany is a new prehistoric turtle species recently discovered in China. The new species lived about 125 million years ago in China, during the Early Cretaceous Epoch (about 145 to 100.5 million years ago). Xiaochelys ningchengensis

42 Geoclemmys Hamiltonii were rescued in Pakistan A citizen in Karachi, Pakistan spotted a large number of abandoned turtle. Classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN Red List, these 42 Geoclemmys hamiltonii were probably discarded by wildlife traffickers on 7 October 2015. While 15 out of the 42 were found dead, the rest of them will be released into their natural habitat. Turtle News From Around

Unexpected Rare Wood Turtle Hatched This is pretty uncommon yet pretty awesome. A man dug up 8 eggs by mistake while he was having work done with an excavator. The man build a nest and buried the eggs somewhere else and watched them everyday for a month. He did not know whether they were turtles eggs or snakes eggs until the hatched. After a month