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Mona Khalil, Who Devoted Her Life To Protecting Turtles, Killed By Israeli Airstrike

Mona Khalil, a Lebanese ecologist activist looks at a turtle at a coast in the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre 12 August 2002

Are You Entranced By The Turtle Dance?

a baby loggerhead turtle does a happy turtle dance inside a bucket of water

This Is So Stupid

This Week In Turtles

Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise, believed to be the oldest reptile living on earth with and alleged age of 185 years, opens his mouth in a kind of yawn as he stands on grass

When A Turtle Is A Taxi For Shrimp

A helmeted turtle walks along gravel

The Last Female Yangtze Giant Softshell Turtle Is Dead

A photo of the now deceased last female Yangtze giant softshell turtle

Turtles Have Been Vocalizing All This Time. Why Did We Not Listen?

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