NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday that it is proposing threatened status for alligator snapping turtles-- huge, spike-shelled reptiles that lurk at the bottom of lakes ...

Demographic information is critical for interpreting abundance trends. Demography refers to the key vital rates or parameters, such as breeding, survival, and dispersal rates. As a concrete example, ...

TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/AP) = Alligator snapping turtles are huge, spike-shelled reptiles that lurk at the bottom of lakes and slow waterways. Their numbers, however, are dwindling. Every state in their ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday that it is proposing threatened status for alligator snapping turtles ― huge, spike-shelled reptiles that lurk at the bottom of lakes and slow waterways, ...

Understanding the units of assessment in sea-turtle populations requires clarity in the definition of nesting populations (Box 2.1). Females show affinity for specific nesting sites and thus can form ...

Federal wildlife officials propose keeping Hawaii’s green sea turtles’ threatened status under the Endangered Species Act, meaning it would continue to be illegal to kill or hunt them. Hawaii has a ...

The public can comment through July 27 on two federal agencies' proposed rule to change the status of green sea turtles on Guam and the Northern Marianas from threatened to endangered. The U.S. Fish ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is investigating whether leatherback sea turtles are still endangered in the northwestern Atlantic. Above, leatherback turtle hatchlings crawl along ...

The turtles are used for meat and in Traditional Chinese Medicine, with major markets in Hong Kong, China, Singapore and Malaysia, mostly supplied from Indonesia. Animals are also exported as pets, ...