Gary Walts/The Post-Standard Staff photographer Gary Walts snapped this photo of a painted turtle hatchling that he found in his backyard at his home near Watertown. That's Gary's hand holding the ...

There was a time, not long ago, when a 10-year-old boy could head to a neighborhood fair, get his face painted like a Halloween zombie and blurt out something utterly inane to a local TV news ...

Springtime brings baby turtles, here’s what to do if you find hatchlings Though not endangered, painted turtles have a “pretty rough life,” said wildlife ecologist Dan Thompson, who said ...

These four painted terrapin turtles may be tiny, but it was a big effort bringing them into the world. To stream KHOU 11 on your phone, you need the KHOU 11 app. Download the KHOU 11 app.

The recent weather of the last couple of weeks of April has demonstrated the varied conditions that this month can give. Within a few days, we saw the warmest day of the month (the 14th) and the ...

U.S. Customs officers were shell-shocked when they came upon a quartet of painted turtles being brought into the country by an American family arriving returning from a trip to China this month.

The 10-year project began in 2019, although the zoo was releasing turtles before that and has freed around 3,000 of them over ...