There could be dozens of them in your local creek. Snapping turtles are the largest freshwater turtles in North America. And ...

Nocturnal basking has only recently been reported in wild freshwater turtles, but this study suggests that the behaviour is widespread and occurs in many species. Postdoctoral Researcher at La Trobe ...

Australian freshwater turtles support healthy wetlands and rivers. Yet one in three turtle species is threatened with extinction. And there is still much we don't know about them. In a special issue ...

By Karla Mendes A traditional food source for Amazonian communities, freshwater turtles have been included in Brazil’s list ...

Many animals bask in the rays of the sun, soaking up the warmth of Earth’s nearest star. But new research shows that some bask in the moonlight, too. A global study of freshwater turtles shows the ...

As little as 9,000 years ago, a sofa-sized turtle paddled around the Brazilian Amazon. The finding, based on a fossilized jawbone, reveals that some of the most massive turtles ever lived relatively ...

22 May 2007, Rome, Italy --- A worker from Rome's Biopark zoo holds a Testudo Kleinmanni hatchling, an endangered species also known as an Egyptian tortoise, in Rome May 22, 2007. The offspring is the ...

Unregulated commercial collection of freshwater turtles in southern and midwestern states is depleting native turtle populations, including those of rare map turtle species that may already be at risk ...

Mathematicians have solved a physics puzzle using backyard sprinklers. Experiments with silly sprinklers clarified how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever wondered what happens to aquatic life in the winter when lakes freeze over? Rather than hibernating as mammals do, ...