As autumn descends and temperatures drop, North America’s amphibians and reptiles, also known as herpetofauna, scramble to ...

Turtles can be found anywhere, from local ponds and the deep, blue sea to an aquarium tank in your bedroom. These aquatic, semiaquatic or terrestrial creatures are easily recognized thanks to their ...

The endangered Vallarta mud turtle faces severe habitat loss in Mexico, leaving its tiny surviving population at urgent risk.

The convention lets reptile breeders and educators show off a wide variety of scaly cold-blooded creatures. Most of them for ...

earlier this month, the non-native species might have found itself in the soup. Instead, it found itself sharing a bathtub with an alligator named Charlie, under the protective eye of Since opening in ...

How much is that turtle in the window? Maybe not a lot in terms of price. But beware — keeping turtles as pets can be a complicated responsibility. Before you bring that shelled cutie home, be sure to ...

The collection of markings is now thought to have been left by a herd of ancient sea turtles that had been frightened off by ...

Detroit — The Detroit Zoo is now caring for more than 1,000 turtles seized during an investigation of a man busted at the Detroit-Windsor tunnel with 51 live reptiles in his pants. The 1,007 ...

If someone mentions criminal gangs, you might think of drug trafficking or financial crime. But one of the most persistent ...