Some Midwesterners dream of trading winter for warmth by moving to Florida to start a new life. For Nickel, the green sea turtle in the 90,000-gallon Caribbean Reef exhibit at the Shedd Aquarium, the ...

A lone hawksbill turtle approaches Jim Luecke, Maui Ocean Center’s assistant curator, during a dive off Maui’s southern coastline. Hawksbill sightings are extremely rare in Maui waters. -- JOHN GORMAN ...

An employee first spotted the turtle in the koi pond. It was Saturday night inside the Wilbur D. May Museum in Reno. No bigger than a small hand, the shelled creature was there –– tentatively, by all ...

SAINT CLAIR – Growing up in the 1960s and ’70s in Arnots Addition, Nannette Brophy Major was raised in a household that always had a variety of pets including cats, dogs, birds, fish, hamsters, ...

Editor's note: James Fisher of Bella Vista and Randolph Stainer of Tulsa, Okla., are the two winners of the 2023 Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette fish story contest. Fisher is winner of the Readers ...

Aquarist Brendan Gilloffo works with green sea turtle Nickel on husbandry behaviors during a training session at the Shedd Aquarium on June 8, 2023. Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune/TNS Some ...