After the remnants of Hurricane Ida ripped through Berks County it looked like someone pulled a plug and let the water out of Painted Turtle Pond at Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center. All ...

“Pond turtle” is something of a misnomer, because this reptile more frequently lives in rivers and spends a lot of time in terrestrial habitats. As the West Coast's only native freshwater turtle, the ...

Editor's note: Because of production problems, some readers did not receive the complete version of this story in Tuesday's editions. Turtle No. 13 is pretty much like western pond turtles everywhere.

Call it a Head Start program for western pond turtles, a species that certainly needs a helping hand. Bullfrogs, disease and habitat loss drove the state’s population down to about 150 in three ...

Turtles and ducks compete for space in the McKinley Park pond in Sacramento. City officials and volunteers will remove the turtles as they prepare to clean and rehab the pond. Ryan Lillis ...

Western pond turtle photo by James Bettaso, USFWS. This photo is available for media use. “This new study shows the western pond turtle is even rarer than we thought,” said Collette Adkins Giese, a ...

Turtles dug themselves deep into the mud while pumps whirred and drained a mucky slurry from the pond at Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens. Spencer Frasher, who’s been working at the pond almost daily, ...

John Maerz, a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, knew there were non-native turtles in the Mary Kahrs Warnell ...