Some Midwesterners dream of trading winter for warmth by moving to Florida to start a new life. For Nickel, the green sea turtle in the 90,000-gallon Caribbean Reef exhibit at the Shedd Aquarium, the ...

SAINT CLAIR – Growing up in the 1960s and ’70s in Arnots Addition, Nannette Brophy Major was raised in a household that always had a variety of pets including cats, dogs, birds, fish, hamsters, ...

It was a day full of surprises. When anglers Carter Andrews and Chase Cornell started drifting live crabs over a reef, they didn’t expect to pull up a mangrove snapper, let alone a 10-pound behemoth.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will add new protections for a rare turtle whose ridged shell looks like a topographic map, with the goal of keeping it from going extinct. The federal agency has ...