What looks and feels like a river rock, has four webbed feet, a pointy snout with beady eyes, buries itself during winter, and dines on small frogs, fish, aquatic insects and plants? These are ...

“Pond turtle” is something of a misnomer, because this reptile more frequently lives in rivers and spends a lot of time in terrestrial habitats. As the West Coast's only native freshwater turtle, the ...

California’s native Western Pond Turtle tends to lie low during the winter. But in the warmer months, it’s at its most active. You might occasionally spot the turtle basking on a sunlit log around ...

Jason Jacobs, Exec. Dir. of the Sacramento Bee holds a western pond turtle at the Sacramento Zoo on Tues., Oct. 2, 2018. Renee C. Byer [email protected] They moved slowly. But that didn’t mean they ...

Turtles have been on earth for 230 million years and survived three mass extinctions, including the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. Now, Sonoma State University students are trying to help the ...

A multiagency effort to reestablish California’s only native freshwater turtle species in southern Marin County after its disappearance nearly three decades ago has shown success, researchers say. For ...

But that didn’t mean they weren’t excited. They are turtles, after all. One by one, 35 of them waded through the mud into a pond in Lakewood on Friday to start their new lives in the wild. The 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.

A move by the federal government to protect an inland turtle that lives in freshwater and wetlands mainly west of the Cascades is drawing support from thousands of environmentalists but opposition ...

It’s February in the Columbia River Gorge. Cold and windy, with a hint of snow in the air. About 50 miles east of Portland, on the Washington side of the river, the chill has brought a sense of winter ...