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An endangered sea turtle is back in the ocean after more than a year of rehabilitation at aquariums in Boston and Mississippi. The Mississippi Aquarium released the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle named Typhoon on Thursday into the Mississippi Sound at Biloxi. Kemp’s ridleys are the world’s smallest sea turtles and the most endangered of those found in U.S. waters....

A rare two-headed diamondback terrapin turtle is alive and kicking — with all six of its legs — at the Birdsey Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts after hatching two weeks ago.

A group’s day at the beach became a rescue mission after beach-goers in Antofagasta, Chile found an injured olive ridley turtle. They alerted authorities, who were able to transport it to a local rescue center for treatment.

Team USA faces off against an unexpected competitor: an origami turtle.

It’s not unusual for rocks and other debris to crash through a windshield and injure a driver or passenger — but a turtle?

The season’s first cold-stunned sea turtles were rescued from Cape Cod beaches over the weekend. A spokeswoman for Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary says juvenile Kemp’s ridley turtles were found Saturday at beaches in Brewster and Eastham. A third was found Sunday on Great Island in Wellfleet.

It’s turtle nesting season in New Hampshire, so wildlife biologists are asking drivers to keep an eye out and slow down if they see one crossing a road. Turtle nesting season lasts from late May into early July, reaching its peak in early to mid-June.

Myrtle the green sea turtle is iconic. She has been at the New England Aquarium in Boston since 1969 and scientists estimate she is about 90-years-old.

A southeast Idaho teacher accused of feeding a live puppy to a snapping turtle in front of students has been acquitted of misdemeanor animal cruelty.

The Sea Turtle Conservancy tracks sea turtles in Florida for three months through a fun race called the Tour de Turtle.

A Florida woman says she was driving on the highway when a turtle came crashing through her windshield.