The British expat who had a dead baby turtle inside her vagina may have been a victim of a sexual assault, police said. The 26-year-old woman, who lives on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, had no idea ...

Warmer temperatures yield more female hatchlings, while colder temperatures yield more males Ye et al. In some turtle species, sex is determined by temperature within the nest. When it’s higher than ...

The sex of some turtle species is influenced not by genes but by the temperatures they experience in the nests. Embryos of the Chinese pond turtle, however, can move inside the eggs toward cooler or ...

ARONA, Tenerife (KRON) — Spanish police have launched a sexual assault investigation after doctors recovered a dead turtle inside a woman’s vagina on Friday, according to local reports. The ...

On Friday, June 19, Philippine authorities raided a warehouse on the island of Palawan and confiscated more than 4,000 live, illegally harvested rare turtles, only days before they were to be shipped ...

At 27.9 °C, roughly equal numbers of female and male turtles will emerge from the nests of the Chinese pond turtle Mauremys reevesii. Slightly warmer, and more females will hatch; a little cooler, and ...

Baby turtles inside their eggs squirm around to chill out or to turn up the heat, new research finds, a skill that could potentially enable them to choose their own sex. The study is the first ...

Chinese pond turtles sunning themselves to regulate their body temperatures. Photo by Flickr user Peter Visit a sunny pond in a meadow, park or zoo and you’ll likely see turtles basking on logs and ...