Feeding turtles and tortoises right means mimicking their natural diet; the wrong foods, even common ones, can be harmful.

Adoption fees at a Southern Indiana shelter are now covered through the end of the year, thanks to a local nonprofit.

A study in Science of the Total Environment has measured concentrations of PFAS—also known as forever chemicals—in Australian ...

The African sideneck turtle, or mud turtle, is a playful and unique freshwater reptile. These curious turtles have large eyes and what appears to be a broad smile that many keepers find amusing. Small ...

When fishermen found the endangered loggerhead sea turtle off Vancouver Island in February, she was listlessly floating in a ...

A two-headed turtle in New Jersey is being hailed a miracle after beating the odds and surviving past infancy despite its ...

The two large houses that sit on Museum Road in Gainesville are home to about 500,000 bats. After Hurricane Milton, more than 100 pets were found in the streets of Polk County and are now taken in by ...

The way that this bird entered the country is quite interesting. Eurasian collared-doves were sold as pet birds in another ...

In fact, the spiny softshell turtle is Canada's most distinct animal in evolutionary terms, researchers from Simon Fraser University show in a first-of-its-kind study. Arne Mooers, a biodiversity ...

It is very important to know what kind of species you want and the care it needs before you acquire a pet turtle. Many need special food and tanks. Each species has different feeding requirements, ...

When identifying whether you are looking at a turtle or a tortoise, consider where it lives (water vs. land), its shell shape, leg structure, and diet. Turtles enjoy a mixed diet that includes ...

In 1991, I went to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze. The Turtles were barely using their weapons now, Casey Jones was gone, and April O’Neil wasn’t Judith Hoag anymore – ...