Methods used in wildlife ecology can influence population- and community-level estimates, such as species richness, sex ratio, age and size structure, occupancy and detection probabilities, and ...

Editor's Note: This is the last in a two-part series on turtles. Although turtles usually are not a pest to people, they can sometimes reach numbers where economic damage occurs. There are a variety ...

QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — As global warming fills the plankton-rich waters of New England with death traps for sea turtles, the number of stranded reptiles has multiplied over the last 20 years, filling ...

Some success is being seen in the second month of what could be a years-long effort to eradicate invasive red-eared slider turtles and bullfrogs from the Cache Creek Nature Preserve. The effort began ...

QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — As global warming fills the plankton-rich waters of New England with death traps for sea turtles, the number of stranded reptiles has multiplied over the last 20 years, filling ...

When diamondback terrapins spy bait sitting in a crab pot, they often push their way inside to feast, only to get stuck. Terrapins, a small and vulnerable species, use lungs to breathe and can drown ...

A continuing eradication effort of bullfrogs and red-eared slider turtles at the Cache Creek Nature Preserve may be having an effect. While it’s still too soon to know how successful the removal ...

A South Carolina man illegally trapped hundreds of freshwater turtles in Georgia that were eventually shipped to China for thousands of dollars, authorities said. Now, the man is facing prison time.

One of the resident turtles swims in the holding pond at the Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Fla. July 7, 2009. A South Carolina man illegally trapped, then shipped hundreds of freshwater turtles from ...

A leatherback turtle floats next to a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission boat Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. The officer assigned to that boat freed the reptile from a lobster trap line. FWC ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A massive alligator was ...