Scutes are hard, external scales on the turtle's shell made of keratin, similar to our hair and nails. It's important that ...

The holiday season can be a stressful time for people, with travel, budgets, families and sky high expectations. That’s why it’s important to take a moment and breathe. And in case you can’t remember ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Snapping turtles are not the kind of animal that most people think of as “cute” with their funnel-shaped noses, thick, warty ...

Boxed in by a freeway, a golf course and a neighborhood, it’s a miracle that San Francisco’s Mountain Lake even exists. But not only is the tiny lake—located on the south end of the city’s Presidio ...

SOUTHWICK – Just as Conservation Commission Coordinator Sabrina Pooler bent over to pick up a dead box turtle she found while searching for vernal pools with U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologist Nathan ...

Baby sea turtles are an impressive example of nature’s engineering prowess. (Also, they are adorable.) The beaches on which they are born are plagued with predators looking to snatch up a quick turtle ...

For the 50th sea turtle sculpture in the Turtles About Town public art project, Galveston artist Elizabeth Punches wanted to capture a grandparent in an act of love. Since 2018, the public art ...