Hong Kong animal rights activists have called on the government to create a list of approved pets after an abandoned 85kg (187lbs) alligator snapping turtle was found eating fish in a New Territories ...

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Among elite chess grandmasters, more than 70% of competitions end in ties. And that is just conventional "over the board" chess; in the growing realm of online competition known as "correspondence ...

Queen of Chess is an intriguing new Netflix documentary film focusing on real-life female chess champion Judit Polgár. The factual film is perfect for fans of the 2020 drama The Queen’s Gambit and ...

A rare turtle that washed up in Jersey following Storm Goretti is to be flown to the UK for rehabilitation. Crush, a loggerhead turtle, was given life-saving treatment at New Era Veterinary Hospital ...

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Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an apparently fate-tempting plea. "I kept joking through that whole class, ...

The chess prodigy's rise to stardom unfolds in director Rory Kennedy's new film 'Queen of Chess' Yves Forestier/Sygma via Getty; Courtesy of Netflix Judit Polgár's rise to chess stardom is documented ...

A rare loggerhead turtle - a species not native to UK waters - has been rescued after being found near-dead on a Suffolk beach after being washed ashore in stormy weather. Steve Foreman was walking on ...

The world’s number one chess player, Magnus Carlsen, won his fifth Speed Chess Championship (SCC) Finals. Carlsen, 35, banked $25,000 plus an additional split based on winning percentage by beating ...

Brevard Zoo received $1.75 million in federal funding for sea turtle research and rehabilitation. The funds will help build the Scaife Family Sea Turtle Care Complex at the zoo's planned $140 million ...