The most easily seen turtle in Windsor-Essex, the midland painted turtle, is in trouble. “It should be alarming to some people that our once common species are now becoming listed as endangered ...

When temperatures drop, some water turtles — including painted turtles and common snapping turtles — search out the soft ...

In today's lesson that shouldn't have to be taught, the Atlantic Wildlife Institute is urging the public not to paint turtles. The institute recently treated and released a wood turtle that had ...

As a kid growing up on the East Coast of the United States, I grew up a huge fan of the eastern box turtle. They’re a mostly terrestrial species of that you can find in the forest, in your lawn or ...

When four turtles were found stranded in a fish ladder on the North Shore, it brought to light another consequence of the drought Massachusetts has been enduring this summer. Low flow in a river can ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department says keeping native turtles as pets is prohibited because it can harm the turtle and pose threats to wild ...