Six months ago, a striped mud turtle with a broken shell was found on the Gulf Coast of Florida, and thanks to a ...

Prosecutors said he was involved in a scheme to illegally sell wild turtles to people in other states and countries. A Florida resident will soon report to federal prison for his role in an ...

In a weird way, stinky turtles have led to my current life as a guy in Costa Rica working in wildlife monitoring. Up until the age of ten I lived in southern New Jersey. The area I grew up in wasn’t ...

A Florida man, who owns a reptile shop, pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday for trying to illegally export thousands of wild-caught turtles to Hong Kong and Germany, court records show. John ...

Trudging through the thorny brush, Mike Knoerr is on a quest. Thunk. Thunk. Two five-foot long wooden dowels, the width of a pool stick, are in each of his hands. Methodically, he pokes them into the ...

Identification of turtles -- Key to the turtles of the United States and Canada -- Chelydridae: snapping turtles -- Chelydra serpentina, snapping turtle -- Macroclemys temminckii, alligator snapping ...