To ensure a future for these endangered turtles, scientists need to know how many are left Stephen Taglieri Wood turtles are made for their environment. They blend in with muddy rocks in the streambed ...

One day in August 2018, conservation police officers in upstate New York busted a retired school teacher who had collected nearly 300 reptiles in his house. He had rare and threatened reptiles, ...

CHEBOYGAN COUNTY, MI – Deep in the woods of Northern Michigan, a blonde labradoodle darted off into the underbrush with his nose to the ground as a group of scientists chased behind him. The working ...

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BALTIMORE (WBFF) — The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore announced theywill be raising wood turtles to be eventually released into the forests of western Maryland sometime in 2023. Maryland Zoo contact, Mike ...

Sometimes, if you want to help a threatened species recover, you have to do more than count them. Sometimes you have to dig deep and help them fight off their enemies. Take the wood turtle in the ...

Two dozen orphaned Wood Turtles were released back into the wild after being saved and cared for by marine biologists and herpetologists. For 10 months the turtles were cared for at the SEA LIFE ...

The wood turtle that Rick Koval and I found during the Fourth of July holiday weekend almost set a record. Our wood turtle measured nine inches in length, a mere three-eighths of an inch off the world ...

MINNEAPOLIS — In an undisclosed location south of the Twin Cities, Minnesota Zoo conservation biologist Tricia Markle is hunting for wood turtles. Even with an antenna tracking the turtle’s movement, ...