Imagine it's winter, and you're standing on a frozen lake or pond, when suddenly below your feet you notice hundreds of turtles. What are they doing down there below the ice? Some species, like ...

Winter transforms lakes into thick sheets of ice, creating one of nature’s most extreme environments. Yet, surprisingly, many turtles survive beneath the frozen surface. The question is: what happens ...

For hundreds of years, people believed that, come autumn, barn swallows would dive under the surface of ponds and lakes, swim to the bottom, and bury themselves in the mud for the winter. We now know ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week we celebrated Groundhog Day on Feb. 2 and National Weatherperson Day on Feb. 5. Along with the record cold weather in ...

It took until the middle of January for true Arctic air to arrive in the United States, but despite a late onset of the harshest cold, aquariums and rehabilitation centers across the country have ...

Cold-stunned sea turtles that washed ashore in Massachusetts have been flown on private planes to Florida and North Carolina for rehabilitation. By Derrick Bryson Taylor As the calendar tiptoes toward ...

Volunteers in coastal Texas have rescued thousands of sea turtles from frigid waters and shores during the historic winter storm and are working creatively to house them as much of the region remains ...