As I held the spotted turtle that Rick Koval and I just captured in a Luzerne County swamp, it struck me just how colorful turtles really are. I always assumed turtles were just drab shades of dark ...

Are box turtles in worse shape than herpetologists thought? University of Toledo researchers raise the question in new research published in the journal Ecology and Evolution. Analyzing years of field ...

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, ...

Ornate box turtles and their kin face steep challenges in today’s world, but people can help out by raising the deck height ...

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 ...

They may be small now, but with help from two-legged friends at John Ball Zoo and Calvin University, baby spotted turtles are growing stronger for life in the wild. The two institutions have partnered ...

This box turtle made it safely across the road this time. But the sunken area on top of its back, as well as the white scars on its back, tell of a past near tragedy. We can only guess how the injury ...

Asia’s illegal trade in the Black Spotted Turtle is spiralling out of control. A new TRAFFIC study shows over 10,000 individuals have been seized in two years, eclipsing numbers recorded in a previous ...

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. One species ...

The box turtle and the painted turtle are both turtles from the family Emydidae. Both painted turtles and box turtles are popular pets across the world. They have a similar appearance, with colorful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now the Buckeye State is on the hunt for Ohio's rare turtles. Ohio is one of two states that secured nearly $500,000 in grant ...