Long regarded as one of the longest-living pets you could ever own, turtles surprise many pet owners with how long they can live. Whether you have a red eared slider or a map turtle, these reptiles ...

The red-eared slider and the painted turtle are both fascinating turtles which are popular pets around the world, with the painted turtle being second in popularity only to the red-eared slider. If ...

Vermont banned the import and sale of pond slider turtles, including red-eared sliders, to protect native species. Pond sliders compete with native turtles for resources and can spread diseases.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles didn’t just have a big impact at the box office, Dan Johnson, a zookeeper at the Lake Superior Zoo, says that the comic and movie helped prompt the spread of one of the ...

A turtle with wishes written in paint on its shell was discovered at a beach in South Gyeongsang Province. According to a ...

After putting on surgical gloves, Matthew Allender gingerly picked up a Blanding’s turtle to inspect it for signs of a rare fungal pathogen. The fungus was recently discovered in the state-endangered ...