An employee first spotted the turtle in the koi pond. It was Saturday night inside the Wilbur D. May Museum in Reno. No bigger than a small hand, the shelled creature was there –– tentatively, by all ...

What Kind of Turtle Is in the Video? In his pond, Zak notices his fish are acting strange. That’s when he discovers a softshell turtle has taken up residence. The reptile seems to have come from a ...

Editor's Note: This is the first in a two-part series on turtles. There are over 240 species of turtles worldwide, but turtles are most abundant in eastern North America. Most turtles have good field ...

I was fly fishing on a Boise pond when I spotted something looking back at me. It was a turtle perched on a log. It's a common sight in ponds, but as I looked closer, I spotted another, then more. At ...

American bullfrogs, which were once confined to much of eastern North America, have exploded around the world with dire consequences for native species. Now researchers say they may have found a way ...

SEATTLE — The Woodland Park Zoo and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists (WDFW) are preparing more than 35 Western Pond turtles for release in the wild. As part of the Western Pond ...

SAN JOSE — California’s drought is turning the oasis that was Overfelt Gardens into cracked clay and creating a crisis for abandoned pet turtles in the park’s ponds. But because they aren’t native to ...

Spring time brings a cacophony of frog calls around ponds and wetlands, but as spring slowly transitions into summer, the warmer temperatures signal the breeding season for many of our native reptiles ...

• Early Easter daisies (Townsendia grandiflora) have begun blooming on bare shales in the foothills. Some plants will continue blooming through April. • Bald eagles and ferruginous hawks continue to ...