The giant South American river turtle, also known as the Arrau turtle, is a threatened species native to freshwater lakes and rivers in the rivers and lakes in the Amazon and Orinoco basins. “We ...

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 ...

Counting wildlife is a tricky business, especially when the subject of your count has a tendency to swim away every now and then. However by combining aerial imagery with modeling, researchers have ...

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...