Of all the factors that could delay flights at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, this one is probably the slowest: turtles. Nearly 400 diamondback terrapins have turned up on the ...

From the 1800s through the 1950s, people clamored for the delicacy green turtle soup. Though the color describes the hue of the soup, one turtle commonly used for the dish – the Chelonia mydas – has ...

It’s one thing to read about the male turtle’s mating “dance.” It’s another to witness it. A male turtle tries to woo a female turtle at the Lincoln Park Nature Boardwalk.

Two infatuated tortoises were caught passionately making out on video in Georgia, and it’s not exactly a pretty thing to see up close. The video shows the frenzied gopher tortoises biting and pecking ...

Kendrapada: A large number of endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles have started arriving for mating in the Gahirmatha marine sanctuary, the world’s largest rookery in Kendrapada district. “Hundreds of ...

Love is complicated enough for humans, but in the animal kingdom, courtship can get downright bizarre as you’re about to see in the videos of the strangest animal mating rituals below. From underwater ...