I’ve always loved turtles. Since I was about 10 years old, I spent many summer days on foot or on my bike exploring streams and farm ponds near my home in southeastern Pennsylvania. Some days I’d get ...

Turtles are often unfairly maligned as fish killers that ruin the ecosystems of our ponds, rivers, and streams. The facts are that many turtles are omnivores and consume large amounts of aquatic ...

Q: I have two aquatic turtles, a red-eared and a map turtle, in a 20-gallon-wide aquarium with a UV lamp. I use commercial dry pellets and tiny little pieces of no-fat turkey bologna, but could I have ...

An unusually high number of sea turtle strandings along the Georgia coast is being blamed in part on unseasonably warm ocean water temperatures. In the first 12 weeks of this year, 25 dead sea turtles ...

Turtles and tortoises, though related, exhibit key differences. Turtles are primarily aquatic with streamlined shells and ...

Finding a group of turtles on your driveway, can be either surprising or alarming for some homeowners. If this happens to you ...

Desert tortoises, as their name suggests, don't encounter many large bodies of water. But surprisingly, all turtles, even desert tortoises, can hear better underwater, recent research finds. "If a ...

The overall health of the pond is actively worsening with each flash flood and each heavy rainfall, which causes mudslides in ...