Canine powered conservation is helping researchers learn more about the internationally endangered wood turtle in Maine.

Maine actually has several turtles within its borders. The three most commonly sighted ones are the snapping turtle, the wood turtle and the painted turtle. Snapping turtles live throughout the ...

Wildlife biologists in Maine are wrapping up the trapping portion of a two-year study to determine ways to better protect Blanding's turtles.

SOMERVILLE — A talk on Maine’s native turtle species with wildlife rehabilitator Pam Meier, founder and director of The Turtle’s Back, is set for 1:30 pm. Sunday, June 2, at Pumpkin Vine ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. For the second spring in a row, I have found a baby turtle in my yard ...

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s ...

Maine lawmakers have sent a bill to Gov. Janet Mills to bolster protections for seasonal wetlands that provide critical habitat for imperiled amphibians, insects, turtles and other wildlife. The bill ...

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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Sea turtle strandings have ticked up at an alarming rate in New England, but now the reptiles are close to receiving a lifeline from Congress to help them stay in the water.

Rescuing sea turtles 08:11. At first glance it can look like a morgue: sea turtles, limp and motionless. But if you look closely enough, what might look like a corpse offers a slow glimpse of life.