As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s ...

If injuries are confined to the upper carapace only, and there is no evidence of head trauma, then the turtle can be placed into a shallow amount of tepid water (∼ 25 °C) for 10–20 min to ...

More than 7 million people watched a video of snapping turtles appearing frozen in an Iowa pond. They're wintering in a state called brumation.