Unregulated commercial collection of freshwater turtles in southern and midwestern states is depleting native turtle populations, including those of rare map turtle species that may already be at risk ...

One of the world’s largest and least studied freshwater turtles has been found in Cambodia’s Mekong River, raising hopes that the threatened species can be saved from extinction.

This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — until a changing planet proved too much for even the largest ...

Regular old turtles can live for at least a hundred years and they have a lot of neat evolutionary adaptations to help them survive. Jacqueline Litzgus, a professor of biology at Laurentian University ...

2004 – The Center petitioned to list the Cagle's map turtle, a rare riverine turtle that survives only in the Guadalupe River system in Texas and is threatened by collectors for the pet trade, under ...

The Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife (CROW) in Sanibel, is looking after a mama softshell turtle, after she was hit by a car. "Softshells are a freshwater species found in many ponds, lakes ...

International conservationists will begin airlifting several thousand Asian freshwater turtles to southern Florida this week in a dramatic, large-scale effort to try to save the endangered reptiles ...

COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE — The two western pond turtles kept trying to swim in midair as wildlife biologist Stefanie Bergh detailed the differences between the healthy turtle and the one with shell ...

She may have been their last hope, and now she is gone. Chinese state media has said the last known female Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle has died, CNN reported. She was believed to be over 90 years ...