SACRAMENTO, Calif.— In response to a petition and lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect northwestern and southwestern pond ...

“Pond turtle” is something of a misnomer, because this reptile more frequently lives in rivers and spends a lot of time in terrestrial habitats. As the West Coast's only native freshwater turtle, the ...

The European pond turtle is to be reintroduced to the Upper Rhine. Biologists Kathrin Theissinger and Jean-Yves Georges have ...

Each year at this time, female turtles move from lakes, ponds, wetlands, rivers and streams to nesting areas, where they deposit their eggs in self-excavated nests. Unfortunately, many nesting ...

Lane Oswalt wanted to play hockey on a frozen pond by his house. He looked down only to realize he was standing over snapping turtles under the ice. The 19-year-old and his family recently moved ...

A polluted drain discharging wastewater into a pond designated as a Community Reserve for rare turtle species in Kajalheri ...

And then, I started cleaning it up. But that’s not at all the way it started. The way it started was that I swam for actually 18 years with turtles — pond turtles, snapping turtles, painted turtles, ...