River turtles face immense challenges from predators and environmental factors from birth. Despite remarkable reproductive adaptations like sperm storage, human-induced threats such as habitat ...

The Mary River Turtle, an Australian freshwater species, possesses the extraordinary ability to breathe through its rear, ...

Is there anything more harmless than a turtle? (Unless, I suppose, you’re a nice, leafy vegetable.) Turtles and tortoises—the main difference is that turtles dwell at least partially in water, while ...

A member of the largest freshwater turtle species in the world with the power to bite through bone has been discovered in the United Kingdom – thousands of miles from its native home in the United ...

The known population of the Yangtze giant softshell turtle is now just two males. Experts said that if the female had survived, she could have "laid a hundred eggs or more a year." When you purchase ...

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YAMHILL COUNTY, Oregon — Conservationists in Oregon are racing to protect one of the state’s only native freshwater turtle species from becoming endangered. The Northwestern Pond Turtle, a semiaquatic ...