Long regarded as one of the longest-living pets you could ever own, turtles surprise many pet owners with how long they can live. Whether you have a red eared slider or a map turtle, these reptiles ...

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 ...

Carleton University prof Grégory Bulté found that turtles settled down for winter rest in Opinicon Lake had been attacked by predators.

Researchers studying river turtles in Missouri found populations of the northern map turtle have not recovered from harvesting in the 1970s. University of Florida researchers studying river turtles in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Fish and ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the agency’s failure to decide whether an increasingly rare animal, the ...

Tiny terrapins are taking over the Tennessee Aquarium, triggering a tidal wave of tasks for turtle keepers. This month to date, herpetologists have tallied two dozen new turtles. While many might ...

Roads alone kill countless adult turtles every year so boat mortality need not be high to precipitate the decline of some turtle populations. As a wildlife ecologist, I have been keeping tabs on the ...

Northern Map Turtles, Graptemys geographica, are a long-lived riverine species of conservation concern. We examined carapace morphology of Northern Map Turtles at Mount Union, a major turtle nesting ...