Turtles are often unfairly maligned as fish killers that ruin the ecosystems of our ponds, rivers, and streams. The facts are that many turtles are omnivores and consume large amounts of aquatic ...

I’ve always loved turtles. Since I was about 10 years old, I spent many summer days on foot or on my bike exploring streams and farm ponds near my home in southeastern Pennsylvania. Some days I’d get ...

Around 164 million years ago the earliest aquatic turtles lived in lakes and lagoons on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, according to new research. Around 164 million years ago the earliest aquatic turtles ...

A method of measuring terrestrial activity in aquatic turtles is presented. The importance of this activity is indicated in considering some aspects of the population ecology of the species involved.

Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Jun., 2005), pp. 278-284 (7 pages) The literature on Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina: Emydidae) often characterizes them as terrestrial with ...

Q: I have two aquatic turtles, a red-eared and a map turtle, in a 20-gallon-wide aquarium with a UV lamp. I use commercial dry pellets and tiny little pieces of no-fat turkey bologna, but could I have ...