The operation was upended after investigators found more than 200 parcels destined for Hong Kong containing 850 turtles worth ...

Meet the newest alligator snapping turtle and get a close look at this incredible prehistoric-looking reptile. From its powerful jaws to unique behavior, here’s why this species is one of the most ...

Have you ever called an alligator a crocodile or thought a llama was just a fancy alpaca? It happens to the best of us!

Turtle shells evolved over the course of 300 million years, but self-defense wasn't the initial driver, researchers think. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Amnesty International said Thursday the use of a confined space called the “box” at the migrant detention facility in Florida known as Alligator Alcatraz could amount to torture. The human rights ...

Since Florida opened the controversial Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention site in the middle of the Everglades this past summer, migrants have reported inhumane and unsanitary conditions, ...

LATEST Dec. 4, 8:40 a.m. Necropsy findings have revealed more information about the sudden death of Claude, the California Academy of Sciences’ famed albino alligator. Experts at the UC Davis School ...

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Here's something you don't often see in the Charles River: an alligator. But over the past few days, walkers along the Esplanade might've done a double-take, wondering for a moment if they'd somehow ...

It would look menacing if it weren’t so small. A baby American alligator rested with its mouth agape between the hands of Joseph Kenney, an animal educator with Joe’s Crazzy Critters, on Wednesday ...

BOSTON (AP) — It wasn’t a croc — there really was an alligator on the loose in Boston. Today In History, January 1: Ellis Island opens Trump vilifies Kennedy family hours after Tatiana Schlossberg’s ...