JAMAICA, Queens -- Why would a bunch of turtles leave their comfortable swampland around Jamaica Bay, and wander onto a busy runway at JFK Airport? They've been using the runway to lay their eggs for ...

In the world of nature, June is a busy month filled with birth and egg-laying. We usually think of eggs as coming from birds. And rightly so, during this warm wet month. The migrants that stay with us ...

A female member of an endangered species of turtle has laid eggs for the first time since being rescued, much to the delight of conservationists. The lucky Manning River turtle is part of a captive ...

A couple of decades ago, in my herpetology class at the University of Georgia, we were discussing evolutionary ecology and someone asked the age-old question, “which came first, the chicken or the egg ...