Claim to fame: Of the 21 species and sub-species of turtles native to Missouri, the red-eared slider is one that's well-known around the world and — if you live in Asia or Europe — one highly disliked ...

Inga Cotton has learned to love the Zen of the red-eared slider turtle. Usually that means following the turtle’s slow-but-steady lead at the San Antonio Botanical Garden, where for about a decade ...

Youngsters of a certain age might remember the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle craze of the 1980s and 90s; the masked cartoon creatures seemed to be everywhere. These days, biologists worried about native ...

Inga Cotton has learned to love the Zen of the red-eared slider turtle. Usually that means following the turtle’s slow-but-steady lead at the San Antonio Botanical Garden, where for about a decade ...

Red-eared slider turtles are cute enough to be one of the most popular reptile pets sold in Connecticut, but a legislative committee voted Wednesday to ban importing them into this state because of ...

I am an 80-year-old woman who has a red-striped turtle. I've had him for over 10 years. Unfortunately, I'm no longer able to care for him. Do you know a place that will take him? Red-eared sliders are ...

In the spring, after a long winter indoors, Willy turns into a wild turtle. Claudia and Clark Fields will bring Willy out to his pond, dwarfed only by the Fields’ sprawling property in west Greeley.

In the summer of 2011, visitors to the University of California, Davis, Arboretum may have witnessed an unusual site: small teams of students wielding large nets, leaping into the arboretum's waterway ...

Chennai: Customs officers at Chennai airport on Saturday seized around 5,000 red-eared slider turtle hatchlings that were abandoned at the international arrival terminal and launched a hunt for the ...