As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s ...

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s collection of nature books and daydream about the creatures within.

It’s not every Tuesday you get to meet a turtle named after a candy, but that’s exactly what happened on this week’s ...

The box turtle and the painted turtle are both turtles from the family Emydidae. Both painted turtles and box turtles are ...

The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) has launched a website that tracks satellite-tagged sea turtles, with the ...

Summer fades and sweet autumn approaches, with its promise of crystal blue skies, dry air, and full workweeks unsullied by uninterrupted stretches of sunlit leisure. Life is full of tradeoffs.

Chinese Three-striped Box Turtle Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Click to open ... Reptilia,Order: Testudines,Family: Bataguridae,Genus: Cuora,Species: ...

“All animals with a backbone and a shell are turtles,” says Jeffrey Lovich, Research Ecologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, so it’s an umbrella term used for turtles, tortoises, and terrapins.

Every year, Jeff Briggler sees the same three-toed box turtle. "In Callaway County, where I live, I found where this box turtle [spends the winter], and it's a small depression in the woods," he said.

BASCO, Batanes (PIA) – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources has released eight green sea turtle hatchlings into the coastal waters of Sabtang, Batanes. According to Victoria Baliuag, ...

“We’ve been here for 11 years, we’ve never seen the tracks or had reports the last few years of turtles nesting in such numbers around here,” Mr McGuinness said.