Native to ponds throughout the Eastern United States, from Texas to New York, the Eastern mud turtle is a popular pet choice due to its small size. These turtles are aquatic but compact, rarely ...

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 ...

The sun shown on a good sized crowd at Clackamas Community College today, where the 2-1 Mud Turtles hosted the Skagit Valley Lumberjacks. Making the start for the Turtles was right handed hurler Kyle ...

An endangered turtle species found only in several small areas of Mexico and a habitat in Arizona may soon lose its last refuge in the United States. Michael Bogan, who leads the team, said the stakes ...

Mud turtles lack an entoplastron (the near-circular plastral bone located along the midline, in between the forelimbs, and in between the epiplastra and hypoplastra). The kinosternid carapace is ...

Turtles are the vertebrates under the greatest threat. Among the approximately 320 turtle species, the species confined to islands have been especially hard hit – humans have caused the extinction of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A remote desert oasis in Arizona has become the center of an urgent rescue effort as wildlife officials race ...

The Sonoyta mud turtle has just one remaining refuge in the U.S. Now, scientists say they've been told to "prepare for the worst" as border wall construction moves closer NPS Wildlife officials are ...