A turtle outside of Best Cleaners.Courtesy of Jennifer Malon and Best Cleaners. A dry cleaning store in Connecticut has become a passageway for local turtles. Female turtles cross from a local pond ...

A projected rise in droughts could muddy the waters for painted turtles and some fellow freshwater-dwelling reptiles, says 11 years of data collected by 50-plus undergraduates. Two recent studies ...

AMES, Iowa – Researchers at Iowa State University are rethinking the long-held conventional wisdom that turtles don’t suffer some of the ravages of old age. Nearly 30 years of data collected on ...

Each year, when spring gives way to summer, female turtles leave the river to lay their eggs. It’s such a predictable event that La Crosse County is known as a hot spot for turtle crossings, turtle ...

Every summer at Best Cleaners in Middletown, Conn., employees throw open the front and back doors and the slow parade begins. Very slow. During nesting season from May through September, turtles ...

The Pacific Northwest has two native freshwater turtles, the Western painted turtle and the Western pond turtle. The pond turtle, found on the West Side, is state-listed as endangered in Washington.

Energetically expensive life-history events often require energy trade-offs with day-to-day maintenance activities, particularly when such life-history events are also physiologically stressful. To ...

A dry cleaning store in Connecticut has become a passageway for local turtles. Female turtles cross from a local pond through the store to a marsh to lay their eggs. Months later, baby hatchlings take ...