Turtles at the Burbank Animal Shelter will soon have a place to hang their shells. Students from Burbank High School are working on giving the shelter its first turtle pond through a volunteer effort ...

A rotund turtle with an extra-long neck and short legs bumbled across the bottom of the Mary Kahrs Warnell Garden turtle pond ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Eleven tiny, endangered northwestern pond turtle babies have made their home in the Oregon Zoo - part of a program to help keep the little reptiles from getting eaten by invasive ...

LAKEWOOD, Wash. — Three decades of love and care is bringing a species back from the brink. "Every one is marked with an individual ID," Woodland Park Zoo animal curator Kevin Murphy said, as he ...

What looks and feels like a river rock, has four webbed feet, a pointy snout with beady eyes, buries itself during winter, and dines on small frogs, fish, aquatic insects and plants? These are ...

These little turtles are back where they belong thanks to conservation efforts by a number of state and regional agencies. Today, dozens of Western pond turtles were released at a refuge site in ...