Starting in the 1960s, the company shifted to toys, including the Ultra Hand, a plastic hand-extender that sold in the ...

Fiona tells PEOPLE how her red-eared slider Izzie laying a single egg at nearly 40 felt “extra special,” even as the viral TikTok sparked debate and drama Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Fiona had cared for her turtle, Izzie, for decades, but nothing quite prepared her for the day the nearly 40-year-old red-eared slider laid a single egg. When she shared the moment on TikTok, what ...

In 2025, 11-year-old Touren Pope was rock hunting with his grandparents in southwest Wyoming when he stumbled upon something extraordinary: a prehistoric fossilized turtle shell. Experts examined the ...

In the original 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, the headquarters for Shredder’s Foot Clan is a wonderland for juvenile delinquents. The ruthless ninja offers his followers drinking and ...

Touren Pope was rockhounding in the Greater Green River Basin when he found a remarkable foot-long fossil. It turned out to be the shell of a soft-shelled turtle. When it was freed from the rock ...

Rock climbers in northern Italy have stumbled upon an extraordinary paleontological find: fossilized evidence of what scientists believe was a massive sea turtle stampede dating back 80 million years ...

Scientists have been closely monitoring a map turtle population after 10 percent died in 2022. They found a surprising culprit, and are left concerned for the future. A female northern map turtle ...

Last fall, what began as a typical day of rockhounding for 11-year-old Touren Pope turned into an extraordinary journey through time. While exploring public lands managed by the Bureau of Land ...