GREEN VALLEY - With a tiny radio transmitter cemented onto his shell, Bubba marched slowly into the water and disappeared, like a kid with a backpack merging into a crowd of students at school. Bubba ...

From the spiny softshell, a sit-and-wait ambush predator, to the hefty alligator snapping turtle, the only turtle in the world with a predatory lure in its mouth, to the yellow mud turtle, which ...

Blanding's turtle is a threatened species in Iowa. (Photo courtesy of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources) Iowa is home to 13 wild turtle species, nearly all of which are in need of conservation ...

For the 17th consecutive year, the American Tortoise Rescue, a nonprofit organization established for the protection of all species of turtles and tortoises, is sponsoring World Turtle Day on May 23.

GREEN VALLEY, Ill. (AP) -- With a tiny radio transmitter cemented onto his shell, Bubba marched slowly into the water and disappeared, like a kid with a backpack merging into a crowd of students at ...

Identification of turtles -- Key to the turtles of the United States and Canada -- Chelydridae: snapping turtles -- Chelydra serpentina, snapping turtle -- Macroclemys temminckii, alligator snapping ...

From May 1996 to September 1997, we investigated population and reproductive characteristics of Cuora flavomarginata flavomarginata in the Feitsui Reservoir Protected Area, northern Taiwan. Of 288 ...

Many cultures tell fascinating tales about turtles. Several North American Native tribes speak of a great turtle floating in a primal sea, before there was any land. Here lived all the other animals ...

EUSTIS — George Heinrich’s fascination with turtles goes back to when he was a tyke. “When I was 5 years old my father brought home a box turtle,” he said. “I think it escaped but I was hooked.” And ...