CHEBOYGAN COUNTY, MI – Deep in the woods of Northern Michigan, a blonde labradoodle darted off into the underbrush with his nose to the ground as a group of scientists chased behind him. The working ...

One day in August 2018, conservation police officers in upstate New York busted a retired school teacher who had collected nearly 300 reptiles in his house. He had rare and threatened reptiles, ...

While spiny softshell turtles are threatened in Vermont and spotted turtles are endangered, wood turtles could soon be threatened in the state due to land use change. That is why the state’s Fish & ...

Scientists at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute's campus in Front Royal work to conserve ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Dozens of wildlife organizations have come together to urge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to declare the wood turtle an endangered species. A letter was penned to the ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and 66 organizations and individuals today urged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect wood turtles as endangered under the Endangered Species ...

Bumpy-backed wood turtles — about the size of dessert plates and typically an earthy green-brown in color with yellow markings — were once quite common across the northeastern United States and upper ...

A group of conservation organizations is calling on the federal government to list the Maryland-native wood turtle as an endangered species. More than 60 organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Fish ...

As a kid growing up on the East Coast of the United States, I grew up a huge fan of the eastern box turtle. They’re a mostly terrestrial species of that you can find in the forest, in your lawn or ...