One of three loggerhead sea turtles swims in the Mediterranean sea after they were set free by Spanish Queen Sofia and her granddaughter Victoria Federica on the Spanish Balearic island of Cabrera. A new federal study says most of the world's loggerhead turtle populations are it risk of extinction. Loggerheads have been listed as a threatened species since 1978.
A female soft-shell turtle rests near a pool inside a zoo in Suzhou, China.
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A handler holds up a green sea turtle at the
A green turtle swims in a tank at the Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo.
Turtles sun themselves on a log at the Myriad Botanical Gardens during the Festival of the Arts in Oklahoma City.
This photo shows a python at the Zoological Park in New Delhi. Cambodian authorities have seized nearly half a tonne of live pythons and turtles that were being smuggled from Thailand to Vietnam.
Three of the 13 Australian red-bellied short-necked turtles hatched this past week at the San Diego Zoo. The hatchlings are about the size of a quarter. This aquatic species is native to tropical regions of Australia and New Guinea.
An Olive Ridley turtle coming towards the shore to lay eggs, near Rushikulya river mouth in Ganjam district in Orissa, India.
A weeks-old Galapagos Giant Tortoise crawls in front of its 70-year-old mother "Nigrita" inside an enclosure at Zurich zoo.
Allison, a three-year-old Atlantic Green sea turtle, swims in a holding tank at Sea Turtle, Inc., in South Padre Island. The 5-inch green sea turtle was missing three flippers when tourists found her two years ago and took her to Sea Turtle Inc., a turtle hospital started by a local woman 31 years ago to treat and return injured sea turtles to the wild.