The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission are asking drivers to be aware of wild turtles when driving through wooded areas.

The Burmese peacock softshell turtle is the best animal you’ll learn about this week. The Burmese peacock softshell turtle is… a lot. With its elephant-trunk legs, elongated piggy snout, and strange ...

It was around six years ago that ecologist Ayushi Jain arrived in Kasaragod, Kerala, in search of the Asian giant softshell turtle (a large freshwater turtle). She interacted with the community ...

The turtle was added to the IUCN’s Red List in 2018, and conservation efforts are difficult. This post was updated on May 20, 2025 to include information on Wisconsin’s turtle-sniffing Lab, Tilia.

In a peculiar twist, turtles at a Kanpur temple pond have developed a taste for paneer, offered by devotees during weekly rituals. These Indian softshell turtles, usually carnivores, eagerly ...

Nagshankar, in northeastern Assam’s Biswanath district, has been designated a model temple for turtle conservation. Local MLA Padma Hazarika acknowledged the temple on behalf of the local ...

A woman working to save turtles at a lake being restored in Berks County is raising awareness about her mission, teaming up with a local wildlife organization to rescue and ...

But we also have a lot of turtles from afar as well.” The softshell turtle and the bigheaded turtle are two more that might defy expectation. “We believe that ‘Turtles’ will change ...

One lovely thing about turtles is that they never look busy. They calmly browse the forest or sun themselves on a log, appearing to live a life of leisure. Behind their chill demeanor, however ...

KANPUR: Like Jerry the mouse drawn irresistibly to cheese, turtles in a Kanpur temple pond surface eagerly for cubes of paneer — a bizarre twist in their dietary tale that has both devotees and ...

BEIJING--Detection in the Chinese city of Wuhan of a bacteria that caused cholera in a student and was separately found in samples from softshell turtles at a food market has struck a sensitive ...