When Ann Berry Somers was 7 years old and growing up in North Carolina, she encountered a box turtle on a path. She picked up the small reptile and looked into its eyes. Instead of retreating into its ...

Viviana Ricardez can’t remember a time where she didn’t love all animals. But she can pinpoint the moment where her affinity toward turtles began. When she was about 7 years old, she and her father ...

Kermit the little green turtle is about to go home. Only a juvenile, he or she is a patient at Brevard Zoo’s Sea Turtle Healing Center, where he or she was brought in June 15 with crushing injuries ...