STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- After more than a year of community opposition to a commercial development planned for a site next to a wetland area in Mariners Harbor, the biggest obstacle the developers now ...

Learn how river turtles act as nature’s cleanup crew, spreading nutrients and keeping ecosystems balanced and full of life.

This creature sleeps most of the year, buries itself in swamp muck, fits in the palm of your hand — and can stop a $40 million, 1,400-job superstore development dead in its tracks. Meet the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- After extensive surveys found there was no presence of an endangered turtle, a commercial development planned for a site next to a wetland area in Mariners Harbor has entered ...

This time around we’re going to talk turtles of Indiana. A couple of terms you might run across when reading about turtles are carapace, the upper bony shell of a turtle, and plastron, the lower shell ...

A bill signed by Gov. Henry McMaster will ban the commercial trade of native turtles in the state. Wildlife advocates say that before the legislation was signed last month, South Carolina law ...

Identification of turtles -- Key to the turtles of the United States and Canada -- Chelydridae: snapping turtles -- Chelydra serpentina, snapping turtle -- Macroclemys temminckii, alligator snapping ...

Each year, tens of thousands of live turtles are stolen from America’s woodlands and waterways and shipped overseas as pets or for meat. And with lax laws against harvest, South Carolina is a haven ...