The shelled inhabitants of Butler's Pond in Quincy will be temporarily relocated to the New England Wildlife Center before the city starts a $1.4 million pond restoration project. The plan is to ...

Editor's Note: This is the first in a two-part series on turtles. There are over 240 species of turtles worldwide, but turtles are most abundant in eastern North America. Most turtles have good field ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service has already received a lot of input on its proposal to list two species of turtles as threatened. Fish and Wildlife Service proposals to protect two species of western ...

SPENCER TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WTVG) - If you’ve come down Moseley Trail between Secor and Wiregrass Lake Metroparks recently, you may have asked yourself, “Where did the pond go?” The water will be slow to ...

Starting this week, volunteers from the New England Herpetological Society will take the turtles to the New England Wildlife Center in Weymouth. In this file photo, turtles basked in the sun near the ...

Editor's Note: This is the last in a two-part series on turtles. Although turtles usually are not a pest to people, they can sometimes reach numbers where economic damage occurs. There are a variety ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Trapping turtles for profit will soon be a thing of the past in Minnesota. Starting next January, commercial harvesting of the state's wild turtles will no longer be legal. It's a move ...

A rare pond turtle living in far western Nevada is now being considered for listing under the Endangered Species Act. On Friday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a proposal to list both ...