It’s turtle time, and sure enough, we spotted one scampering toward the railroad tracks by Kanokolus Road near Unity Pond. Scampering ... She was an Eastern painted turtle (Chrysemys picta ...

Because when it evolved 300 million years ago, roads weren't a threat. So the turtle's armored shell kept out most predators. Its swimming skills provided plenty of food. And its ability to ...

A move by the federal government to protect an inland turtle that lives in freshwater and wetlands mainly west of the Cascades is drawing support from thousands of environmentalists but opposition ...

The cycle begins every summer when female Eastern painted turtles cross ... When they spot a turtle inside or outside, the store's employees scoop them up and help them get to their destination, ...

Painted turtles weren’t the only kind in the pond. It also contained slider turtles and snapping turtles. (A few years ago, Dr. Jasinski named the Gray site slider turtle Trachemys haugrudi ...

An environmental scientist at Harrisburg University recently found the shell of an extinct, previously unknown turtle species at a fossil site in Tennessee. The discovery of the painted turtle ...

A dogwalker spotted the turtle last week in a northwestern English pond called Urswick Tarn, located in a village called Great Urswick. The dogwalker posted a picture of the ancient-looking ...

Credit: Nolan Zunk At the turtle pond, an on-campus oasis a minute’s walk from the ... advantage of a historically underutilized resource right here in their academic backyard—one that offers students ...

Giant bone-crushing dog roamed Gray fossil site One of those extinct species is Chrysemys corniculata, or the horned painted turtle. Numerous shells featuring prominent front-facing spikes have ...