The Holiday Lights Spectacular at Turtle Back Zoo will open this year on Nov. 22. The event will feature light displays throughout the zoo grounds. The spectacular will be open Nov. 22 through Nov.

DES MOINES, Iowa — 57 baby Blanding turtles have been taken in by the Blank Park Zoo as part of a statewide conservation effort with Iowa State and Iowa DNR. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources ...

Why it's awesome: Cantor's giant softshell turtles — named in honor of Danish zoologist Theodore Edward Cantor — spend 95% of their lives completely motionless, buried under mud or sand in ...

Here’s how it works. Why it's awesome: Cantor's giant softshell turtles — named in honor of Danish zoologist Theodore Edward Cantor — spend 95% of their lives completely motionless ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Zoo has announced the theme for Zoobilation 2025 — Giant Shellabration. The event will recognize the zoo’s new Giant Tortoise exhibit. The Indy Zoo will add ...

Canada might want to look into swapping the image of a beaver on the nickel for a turtle. In a first-of-its kind study, researchers have determined that the spiny softshell turtle—an unusual looking ...

In a recent paper published in the journal Genome Research, Valenzuela’s team described the chromatin arrangement in the genomes of two turtle species, the spiny softshell and northern giant musk ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An endangered sea turtle has been released into the Gulf of Mexico after being found off the coast of the ...

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), the Yangtze giant softshell ... turtle in the wild died in Vietnam, and one died in captivity in China in ...

Forever chemicals could cause a population collapse in freshwater turtles after scientists observed serious health impacts as a result of exposure to the toxins.

27, 2024, in a seven-part series on shark discoveries. It is republished under Creative Commons license. The Pacific spiny dogfish is the most abundant shark in Puget Sound, despite its former decline ...