The most easily seen turtle in Windsor-Essex, the midland painted turtle, is in trouble. “It should be alarming to some people that our once common species are now becoming listed as endangered ...

When temperatures drop, some water turtles — including painted turtles and common snapping turtles — search out the soft ...

In today's lesson that shouldn't have to be taught, the Atlantic Wildlife Institute is urging the public not to paint turtles. The institute recently treated and released a wood turtle that had ...

Aquatic turtles, like the snapping and painted, can be spotted almost daily from late winter through the following late fall at and in waters across Pennsylvania. Other species are much more common ...

Winter arrived Friday and Monday is Christmas Eve. While we’ll be snug in our beds, anxiously waiting for Santa to arrive, the season of ice and snow can be quite different for wild animals, ...

As a kid growing up on the East Coast of the United States, I grew up a huge fan of the eastern box turtle. They’re a mostly terrestrial species of that you can find in the forest, in your lawn or ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Wood turtles are mysterious critters that call Vermont home. But research shows human interaction is contributing to their decline. With a bright orange color, wood turtles ...

Box turtles, snapping turtles, wood turtles and others are on the move, in search of prime nesting spots to lay their eggs. They are appearing in unexpected locations, on roads, in backyards and ...

As we drive or walk down our driveway bordered with wetlands and vernal pools, forested wetland, and tag alder swamp, we see incredible wildlife. One day last fall, I shouted, "Stop, stop the truck!" ...