In 1990, four crime-fighting, pizza-loving turtles took over American pop culture. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was already a ...

A new long-running project allows undergraduate students to gain hands-on experience with ecological research in the heart of the UT Austin campus. Assistant Professor Justin Havird oversees the ...

Yosemite’s ponds used to echo with the booming calls of invasive bullfrogs, which devoured young turtles, newts, birds, and more. Now, with bullfrogs nearly gone, native sounds are returning—and so ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has proposed listing the northwestern pond turtle (Actinemys marmorata) and the southwestern pond turtle (Actinemys pallida) as threatened species under the ...

The mass release of this trendy pet has become a serious threat to the river ecosystems of many cities and to native turtle species. The large-scale release of these turtles has since become a serious ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — At the Oregon Zoo, 15 cherry tomato-sized turtles are growing up under heat lamps, part of a long-running effort to save a Northwest species from extinction, officials ...

A move by the federal government to protect an inland turtle that lives in freshwater and wetlands mainly west of the Cascades is drawing support from thousands of environmentalists but opposition ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An alligator snapping turtle that looks like something out of "Jurassic Park" has been found 5,000 miles away from its natural ...

Fifteen endangered northwestern pond turtle hatchlings, each cherry-tomato sized, are spending summer at the Oregon Zoo to grow big enough for release.

The call of American bullfrogs was deafening when scientists from the University of California, Davis, first began researching the impact of invasive bullfrogs on native northwestern pond turtles at ...