Long-neck turtles are also among the most active turtles on land, often traveling kilometers to find water. So they frequently ... help facilitate movement by small animals. Where possible ...

Kemp's ridley, the world's smallest sea turtle species, are found primarily in the Gulf of Mexico, renamed the Gulf of ...

this turtle depends heavily on what little water remains in the Southwest. The easiest way to identify a Sonoyta mud turtle is by its location, since it's the only turtle inhabiting its very small ...

These very aquatic turtles have colorful yellow and red stripes on ... The stinkpot, or the common musk turtle, is a small turtle with a smooth, dark, high domed carapace. It emits a foul smelling ...

Maximo Napa was rescued in his small fishing boat after being spotted by an Ecuadoran vessel off the coast of northern Peru.

but the first couple of year age classes have been much too small,” Mansfield says. “So there’s this whole gap in our knowledge of what turtles are doing, how they’re behaving, what they’re eating, ...

The turtles got released in fashion with a Taylor Swift-themed party. The turtles were given friendship bracelets with their ...

small lakes and ponds, marshes, irrigation ditches and reservoirs. Turtles bask on land or near water on logs, branches or boulders. Terrestrial habitat may be just as important as aquatic habitat for ...

Among Native Americans, the turtle is the elder of creatures; in Chinese mythology, it symbolizes divine wisdom, tenacity, ...

Turtles that are unable to migrate southward when water temperatures quickly drop in the fall become immobilized and wash up along the shoreline. The body temperature of these marine reptiles is ...