Wildlife officials in Massachusetts were called out to an Essex County pond to capture an unusual non-native animal: an ...

“This is one of the first alligator snappers that's been found in the wild in Massachusetts, which means that somebody had it as a pet,” a herpetologist with MassWildlife said. The post Huge ...

An endangered alligator snapping turtle, not native to Massachusetts, was rescued and is being treated for severe pneumonia.

BOSTON (WWLP) – Over 30 critically endangered sea turtles, some rescued from Cape Cod, were released back into the ocean after months of rehabilitative care at the New England Aquarium. In a news ...

BARNSTABLE, Mass. (WWLP) — At the Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable, Massachusetts, they’ve discovered that their two-headed turtle is actually two turtles demonstrating a rare biological anomaly.

A turtle gets blood work done as hypothermic turtles are treated at the New England Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Hospital in Quincy, Mass. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald) BOSTON — After a rash of stranded turtles ...

A rare two-headed diamondback terrapin turtle is alive and kicking — with all six of its legs — at the Birdsey Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts after hatching two weeks ago. A threatened species ...