Releasing pet turtles into the wild is harmful to both the turtles and native populations due to disease transmission and ecological disruptions. Although some regulations allow for pet turtle ...

California’s Western Pond Turtles are the only remaining freshwater turtles native to the state. But their populations face ...

Rhode Island Zoo Working with Trained Search Dog Named Newt to Help Track and Save Turtles A fox red Labrador retriever named Newt is using "his incredible snout to help check on some of our local ...

Of the 20 infected people who provided information to the C.D.C., 16 said they’d had contact with pet turtles; 12 of those said the pet turtles had shells less than four inches long.

Global warming is real. Ice is melting; sea level is rising. Here are a few personal experiences that prove my point. I have had a pet turtle for 12 years.