Never take a wild turtle home with you. Turtle species native to Delaware are prohibited from being owned as pets, according to the Delaware Department of Agriculture, and red-eared sliders require a ...

These behaviours included nesting patterns and the nature and numbers of the ... Fund details the culprits as poachers who slaughter these turtles for their eggs, meat, skin, and shells and fishing ...

These urban canids have demonstrated remarkable adaptability, adjusting their activity patterns to avoid human ... population of diamondback terrapins, distinctive brackish-water turtles with ...

Each foot possesses four powerful toes arranged in an opposing pattern that creates a lethal grasping mechanism ... individuals and using precise strikes to grip only the turtle’s shell rim. The ...

State regulators are set to hear from petitioners seeking to require terrapin excluder devices on crab cages next week. The ...

In Part 3 of the Tori the Turtle series, we’ll crochet the turtle shell—the final and most iconic piece of this adorable sea creature! Learn how to shape and structure the shell using rounds ...

Tiny turtles get a second chance when Evelyn Kidd and her kids search for them in the storm drains of Ventnor, New Jersey.

One lovely thing about turtles ... 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.

A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.

Turtles’ shells, tough as they may be, are no match for two tons of steel and aluminum hurtling down the freeway. Between June 3 and June 9, the Dane County Humane Society’s (DCHS) Wildlife ...