Red-eared sliders and painted turtles also differ in physical appearance. For the red-eared sliders, distinguishing physical features include a red streak behind the eye and a shell divided into ...

However, adult cooters grow to be much bigger than painted turtles, from 10 to 12½ inches long. Northern red-bellied cooters' shells typically are black or brown and their plastrons vibrant red with ...

Wildlife rehab staff at Chattahoochee Nature Center are treating a hawk struck by a car and a turtle that was attacked.

Yangtze softshell turtles, also called Red River turtles, are the largest freshwater turtles in the world. They can live for nearly a century and grow to be nearly 200 pounds.

The turtles rely on the sun for their health and to dry their shells to keep off parasites. Courtesy Sal Scibetta The red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) likes wet and warm habitats.

Clay said red-bellied turtle females grow to a maximum of about 14 inches, while males are slightly smaller at maturity at about 12 inches. Clay said a typical adult red-bellied turtle has an ...

On the heels of National Turtle Day, it's time to shell-abrate the creatures that move slowly on land, but quickly into our hearts. Standing room only on a log in Mattawan's Wolf Lake Fish ...

The shell tends to be relatively flat and they lack the red marking of the slider and the intricate head patterns of map turtles. Cooters are unique among Austin’s turtles in that most of their ...

The last known female Yangtze giant softshell turtle died in April of unknown causes, leaving only two males as the final known living members of a species that has for years been teetering on the ...