For eight years now Lily Donnelly has been a familiar face on Magnetic Island, turning up day and night to save and rehabilitate sea turtles in between her hospitality jobs.

Bloomingdale High School junior Shea Polley has earned the Girl Scout Gold Award — the Girl Scouts of the USA’s highest honor — through The S.H.E.A. Proje ...

Not all animals have brains, and all of them happen to be sea creatures. From the man-o-war to the sea cucumber, here are 12 animals that don’t have a brain and a quick look at how the heck they ...

NEW MEXICO Indian Health Service phases out mercury fillings ALBUQUERQUE — The federal agency that provides health care to Native Americans and Alaska Natives has announced it will phase out the use ...

The rescuer in Australia's eastern victoria patching up shattered shells and saving turtles from certain death.

When turtles are struck on country roads, their shattered shells can mean certain death, but one rescuer in Victoria's east ...

A notorious fishing device is having a devastating impact on an endangered species in the waters surrounding a popular tourist destination. Rescue crews patrolling Magnetic Island ...

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 wake of the success of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, it felt like Paramount was unsure of the hit on its hands for the venerable heroes in a half shell. Plans were made up for a ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - What started as a one-night grassroots effort to feed people during the government shutdown in October has turned into a permanent resource in South College Station.

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 ...

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or treating them like clothing. Biology disagrees. A turtle shell is not an ...