Sidney Woodruff of UC Davis holds a northwestern pond turtle at a field site in Yosemite. (Courtesy Sidney Woodruff) The call of American bullfrogs was deafening when scientists from the University of ...

The turtle looked kind of cute and cuddly tucked away inside its colorful shell after being plucked out of a Marin County lake, but the wrinkly reptile was no E.T., and he wasn't anywhere near home.

Native wildlife species at certain places face population decline, often when there is a disturbance in their natural balance. Factors like loss of their natural habitat, rapid climate change, rising ...

While you're out and about soaking up the springtime weather, you might just see a few turtles in our local ponds and trails. May 23 is World Turtle Day, a day created by American Tortoise Rescue to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For once, Florida is invading the United Kingdom. A dog walker in Cumbria in northwest England spotted something bizarre and ...

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 ...

Remember the theory that glass is actually a liquid, slowly dripping down toward the earth in geologic time? Old windowpanes are thicker at the bottom than the top. Maybe that's urban legend rather ...

The call of American bullfrogs was deafening when scientists from the University of California, Davis, first began researching the impact of invasive bullfrogs on native northwestern pond turtles at ...

Yosemite’s ponds used to echo with the booming calls of invasive bullfrogs, which devoured young turtles, newts, birds, and more. Now, with bullfrogs nearly gone, native sounds are returning—and so ...