The rewilding of 50 captive-bred spotted softshell turtles has sparked hope among conservationists for the future of the rare and threatened species in Vietnam, a country where softshell turtles are ...

The story of this spring has been the weather, specifically, the rain that just keeps falling. Add in the new arrival of the hazy smoke blowing south from Canadian wildfires and you’ve got a soggy, ...

Ohio has rare fishers roaming the woods, rare massasauga rattlesnakes and two other venomou s snakes within its borders. Now the Buckeye State is on the hunt for Ohio's rare turtles. Ohio is one of ...

Scientists have been closely monitoring a map turtle population after 10 percent died in 2022. They found a surprising ...

UNION CITY, Calif. - Bay Area Rapid Transit officials were "shell shocked" after a turtle made an unexpected appearance on its tracks over the weekend. A train operator at the Union City station ...

While spiny softshell turtles are threatened in Vermont and spotted turtles are endangered, wood turtles could soon be threatened in the state due to land use change. That is why the state’s Fish & ...

In cartoons, when a turtle is spooked, it retreats into and closes up its shell. While used for comic effect, this imagery is based in fact – although not all turtles are capable of this protective ...