In a weird way, stinky turtles have led to my current life as a guy in Costa Rica working in wildlife monitoring. Up until the age of ten I lived in southern New Jersey. The area I grew up in wasn’t ...

After months of rehabilitation, six threatened turtles were released back into the wild last week by the San Antonio Zoo’s Center for Conservation and Research. The turtles — called rough-footed mud ...

An employee in a Florida shopping center noticed alligators and turtles in a drained, concrete retention pond. The employee called the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission for help.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An alligator snapping turtle that looks like something out of "Jurassic Park" has been found 5,000 miles away from its natural ...

Jason Jacobs, Exec. Dir. of the Sacramento Bee holds a western pond turtle at the Sacramento Zoo on Tues., Oct. 2, 2018. Renee C. Byer rbyer@sacbee.com They moved slowly. But that didn’t mean they ...

Kamryn Richard, the senior conservation technician at the Center for Conservation and Research at San Antonio Zoo, holds up C17046, a rare West Texas turtle. "We try not to get too attached," Richard ...

The Sonoyta mud turtle has evolved as an aquatic species in one of the driest parts of the Sonoran Desert. With webbed feet and an innate ability to swim, this turtle depends heavily on what little ...

SAN ANTONIO – Six extremely rare, rough-footed mud turtles that were found critically imperiled near Marfa in 2018 have been released back into the Texas wild. Jennifer Smith, a professor at the ...

For hundreds of years, people believed that, come autumn, barn swallows would dive under the surface of ponds and lakes, swim to the bottom, and bury themselves in the mud for the winter. We now know ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. A rotund turtle with an extra-long neck and short legs bumbled across the bottom of ...

The class of 2024’s western pond turtles at Woodland Park Zoo have a final goal to reach before they can graduate for release to the wild: be big and healthy enough to escape the mouths of invasive ...

An alligator snapping turtle that looks like something out of "Jurassic Park" has been found 5,000 miles away from its natural habitat in the U.S. South. A dogwalker spotted the turtle last week in a ...