Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The giant South American river turtle, also known as the Arrau turtle, is a threatened species native to freshwater lakes and ...

Throughout the history of life on Earth, some species have evolved to incredible sizes. Animals today can reach enormous sizes, such as the biggest polar bear found in the U.S., which outsized the ...

Scientists studying the world’s largest river turtles, a South American species that grows to a length of nearly a meter, or 3 feet, have found the largest nesting aggregation ever recorded. Using ...

A University of Florida research team has developed a more accurate way to count wildlife using drones — an innovation that helped confirm the world’s largest known nesting site for a threatened ...

Deep in the Amazon basin, something remarkable happens every year. Along a stretch of sandy riverbank, thousands upon ...

Tracking the turtle’s movements could help identify where high-risk fishing areas overlap with the critically endangered ...