While most sea turtles warm themselves by swimming close to the surface of shallow waters, the Eastern Pacific green turtle will take to land to bask in the sun. Occasionally seen sunbathing ...

Whether they’re gliding through the oceans, basking on riverbanks, or slowly making their way across the land, turtles ...

so all tortoises are technically turtles, too. The main difference is that tortoises live only on land, while turtles can live both on land and in water. Semi-aquatic turtles have webbing between ...

The biologists and volunteers carried the turtles, whose flippers were frantically waggling. The land dwellers carefully placed the sea dwellers on the shore. Then the turtles waddled in the muddy ...