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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...