Methods used in wildlife ecology can influence population- and community-level estimates, such as species richness, sex ratio, age and size structure, occupancy and detection probabilities, and ...

Editor's Note: This is the last in a two-part series on turtles. Although turtles usually are not a pest to people, they can sometimes reach numbers where economic damage occurs. There are a variety ...

QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — As global warming fills the plankton-rich waters of New England with death traps for sea turtles, the number of stranded reptiles has multiplied over the last 20 years, filling ...

A continuing eradication effort of bullfrogs and red-eared slider turtles at the Cache Creek Nature Preserve may be having an effect. While it’s still too soon to know how successful the removal ...

Some success is being seen in the second month of what could be a years-long effort to eradicate invasive red-eared slider turtles and bullfrogs from the Cache Creek Nature Preserve. The effort began ...

When diamondback terrapins spy bait sitting in a crab pot, they often push their way inside to feast, only to get stuck. Terrapins, a small and vulnerable species, use lungs to breathe and can drown ...

There’s only one place left on Earth where a critically endangered species of freshwater turtle is known to survive in the wild: Hong Kong. Golden coin turtles are native to the metropolis’ natural ...

QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — As global warming fills the plankton-rich waters of New England with death traps for sea turtles, the number of stranded reptiles has multiplied over the last 20 years, filling ...

A South Carolina man illegally trapped hundreds of freshwater turtles in Georgia that were eventually shipped to China for thousands of dollars, authorities said. Now, the man is facing prison time.