painted turtles, Mississippi mud turtles – and even snapping turtles. After a long winter, turtles are on the move looking for food and mates during the warm and wet conditions. This can lead ...

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Other common turtles to see out and about include the red-eared sliders, painted turtles, Mississippi mud turtles, or snapping turtles. The warm asphalt also aids to their body temperature as ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A group of young performers from Uganda and Kenya will tour Australia after all, following an 11th-hour backflip from the Department ...

painted turtles, Mississippi mud turtles and even snapping turtles. Turtles emerge from their winter burrows and begin to hunt for food and mates during warm and wet conditions, which can lead ...

A turtle named Rockalina, rescued from a New Jersey home after 50 years. She was picked up by a boy in 1977. The story of a turtle seeing sunlight for the first time after almost 50 years has left ...

Onassis, a giant Amazon river turtle, has lived at the zoo since Valentine's Day 1969. She was named after shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who had married Jackie Kennedy a few months prior.

Sea turtle season doesn't start until May 1, but a female leatherback crawled onto Vanderbilt Beach and laid a nest, the first historic account of this massive species laying eggs on this beach.

While patrolling Surfside Beach early Monday morning, Officer Jimmy McDaniel witnessed something extraordinary: a Kemp's ridley sea turtle—the rarest sea turtle species in the world—resting ...

An eastern box turtle kept as a pet has been rehabilitated by a rescue in New Jersey and got her first chance to see the sun in decades this month Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter ...

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