Tag: Turtles

Diamondback terrapin populations are shrinking in New York City’s Jamaica Bay, and degraded marsh conditions may be the cause. These large, long-lived turtles aren’t listed federally under the Endangered Species...

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Ornate box turtles are found widely across parts of the Great Plains of the United States, but researchers don’t know a lot about their habitat preferences in New Mexico. TWS...

A drone has captured extremely rare footage of one of the world’s most endangered turtles in a lake in Vietnam. Swinhoe’s softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei), also known as the Yangtze...

Wood turtles have likely lost more than half of their suitable habitat over the last century and a half. Habitat changes from urbanization and agriculture have caused researchers to become...

A fatal virus is killing freshwater turtles in Florida. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologists say they have been studying the turtle fraservirus 1 (TFV1), formerly known as turtle...

Kristen Hart has been surveying a number of nesting loggerhead sea turtle populations for years. Like most turtle ecologists, she knows that the females don’t typically start nesting unless they...

Most of the islands in the Gulf of California are uninhabited, but for generations, a fishing family has lived on El Pardito Island in the southwestern end near La Paz....

As development increases in the Lake Simcoe Watershed in Ontario, Canada, researchers found building inexpensive road barriers connected to crossing structures helps save turtles. Lake Simcoe is just north of...

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