Turtle-sniffing dogs searching Long Island woods to protect species

Last year Anna Thonis, a postdoctoral researcher at New York University, launched a study of Long Island’s Eastern box turtles, a "species of special concern" in New York — not officially threatened ...
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Turtles purr like cats, croak like frogs, and even breathe like Darth Vader. No one really understands why.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Turtles make a wide variety of sounds. Researcher Gabriel Jorgewich-Cohen recorded surprising vocalizations from 50 turtle species ...
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Eastern Box Turtles in Wissahickon Valley Park: a unique and threatened animal

This year has been a great one for spotting Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina) in the Andorra Natural Area, the northern end of Wissahickon Park. We had three unique animals sighted: one ...
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Turtles purr like cats, croak like frogs, and even breathe like Darth Vader. No one really understands why.

Turtles have a reputation for being slow, steady, and quiet. If you listen closely, though, they're surprisingly noisy. Gabriel Jorgewich-Cohen first realized this in the Brazilian Amazon, where he ...