In Alabama, a big discovery was made recently... PETER SCOTT: People call it the intermediate musk turtle or aliflora (ph) musk turtle. KING: ...A turtle. That is Peter Scott. He's a postdoc ...

Have you ever wanted to adopt a sea turtle nest? If so, an organization along the Gulf Coast is giving volunteers that option to help protect hatchlings that make their way from the nest to the sea.

For years, the Coleman family's fishing trips on the Alabama Gulf Coast were routine. But in 2021, their outing near a riverbank led to an odd find: the shell of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea ...

Silhouette of Ctenochelys acris overlaid with some of the fossils used to reconstruct the species.Several 80-million-year-old fossils found in Alabama are from a species of sea turtle that is the ...

A family from Mobile found the fossil of a newly discovered genus of the endangered leatherback sea turtle along a riverbank in south Alabama. And thanks to a series of events that unfolded over the ...

Alabama leads the nation in states with the greatest diversity of turtles. Researcher Peter Scott recently discovered another species of the... New Species Of Turtle Is Discovered In Alabama NOEL KING ...