Across Long Island, New York, Eastern box turtles are declining rapidly in population. While not officially labeled as threatened or endangered on the federal level, experts say the turtles are ...

There are calls that cops train for, and then there are calls that no academy on earth could truly prepare you for. When officers with the Flowery Branch Police Department in Georgia encountered a ...

Visual artist and local provocateur Collin Douma keeps his eyes open. The Canadian-born now-exurbanite and his wife bought property in the area in 2017, and they became full-time Olive residents ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While sea turtles are the only reptiles known to migrate long distances specifically to lay their eggs on a favored beach, even ...

Federal officials are warning rafters to watch out for and report invasive snapping turtles that have been multiplying in southern Oregon’s Rogue River. The turtles can harm native wildlife, including ...

These slow-moving reptiles may need a little help during crossing season, but knowing the right way to intervene is imperative to their well-being. Jessica Safavimehr is a writer, editor, and ...

OREGON – The Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest is asking the public to be on the lookout for an invasive species of snapping turtle recently spotted in the lower Rogue River. According to the ...

A 60-pound alligator snapping turtle — among the first reported in the wild in Massachusetts — turned up in an Essex County pond after officials said it had apparently been abandoned by its owner.

The alligator snapping turtle looks as though it could have been created for a Sci-Fi/Dinosaur crossover film or conjured from the imagination of a child. The troughs and pointed peaks of the shell ...

May 22 (UPI) --Wildlife officials in Massachusetts were called out to an Essex County pond to capture an unusual non-native animal: a nearly 60-pound alligator snapping turtle. The Massachusetts ...

Earlier this spring an Essex County resident notified MassWildlife of a snapping turtle acting oddly in their yard and asked for help. What MassWildlife staff found was a female alligator snapping ...