When it comes to breeding some turtles, making even small changes to their environment can be like trying to introduce new foods to an especially picky eater. “You don’t want to go changing a lot of ...

Parents everywhere have it tough, but for Four-eyed Turtle moms, life in the wild is especially harrowing. Found in forests and wetlands along a crescent-shaped arc range spanning China, Laos, and ...

Conservationists believed the Burmese roofed turtle was extinct up until 2001. A handful of specimens were found and a breeding program was established. About 1,000 of the turtles, some hatched from ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will add new protections for a rare turtle whose ridged shell looks like a topographic map, with the goal of keeping it from going extinct. The federal agency has ...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The Tennessee Aquarium has some espe-shell-y good news to announce. Between late June and early July, Aquarium herpetologists successfully hatched seven adorable baby turtles ...

NEW ORLEANS (CN) — A proposal to add the Pearl River map turtle to the federal endangered species list was put forth Monday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service after two environmental groups sued ...