The Outside Story shows how turtles have the capacity to withstand freezing temperatures in winter, some by freezing completely.

What’s in a name?If it’s the name of the Florida Red-bellied Cooter, there’s a lot! This freshwater (and occasionally brackish water) turtle is found in calm water through most of Florida and into ...

Assam’s Kaziranga stretch of Brahmaputra records 945 freshwater turtles, highlighting biodiversity and conservation efforts.

Guwahati: A survey report from the 5th annual assessment of aquatic fauna along a 174-km stretch of the Brahmaputra River ...

When temperatures drop, some water turtles — including painted turtles and common snapping turtles — search out the soft ...

For hundreds of years, people believed that, come autumn, barn swallows would dive under the surface of ponds and lakes, swim ...

Last fall, a routine day of rockhounding on Bureau of Land Management–managed public land in southwest Wyoming turned into an ...

Freshwater extinctions rarely happen overnight, especially in a habitat as large as the Yangtze River. After the death of a ...

Freshwater extinctions rarely happen overnight, especially in a habitat as large as the Yangtze River. However, it’s still ...

SAN DIEGO, CA (IANS) – Officials at the San Diego Zoo announced the arrival of 41 tiny Indian narrow-headed softshell turtles – a rare and endangered turtle species – after two decades. The Indian ...

The Rio Grande cooter can’t catch a break. Rivers that once sustained the turtle species, native to New Mexico, Texas and ...

Union Minister C. R. Paatil launched new Namami Gange initiatives at WII, Dehradun, including an 'Aqua Life Conservation ...