DESCRIPTION: The Sonoyta mud turtle is a dark, medium-sized turtle with a shell up to seven inches long. The upper shell is olive to dark brown; the lower shell is hinged, front and back, and varies ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — 11 out of the 16 documented turtle species in the Volunteer State can be found in and around East Tennessee. Whether you’re curious about what turtle is the smallest, ...

How many different species of turtles live in Arkansas? I wondered this after seeing several kinds in the Bald Knob National Wildlife Refuge recently. The first I came across were a common snapping ...

They shelled out good money. A Florida man pocketed $125,000 from the illegally selling turtles he shipped to Germany and Hong Kong. John Michael Kreatsoulas, 36, of Alva —near Fort Myers — pleaded ...

A Davie man who did federal prison time for buying smuggled wildlife now has been accused of snatching protected Florida turtles from the wild and smuggling them overseas to China, Japan and other ...

In a weird way, stinky turtles have led to my current life as a guy in Costa Rica working in wildlife monitoring. Up until the age of ten I lived in southern New Jersey. The area I grew up in wasn’t ...