While most turtles are wild, many are adopted as pets each year. Keep in mind that turtles are sometimes considered exotic pets, so there may be local or state laws that restrict their adoption. There ...

The unusual bright yellow creature, an albino Indian flapshell turtle, got rescued in West Bengal, India. And the internet thinks it looks like cheese, or an egg yolk. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes ...

JUPITER FARMS, Fla. (CBS12) — A yellow-bellied slider is on the road to recovery in Jupiter Farms after being rescued with a barbed fishing hook stuck in its face. On Wednesday, the Busch Wildlife ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Leo, the tiny yellow-belly slider turtle, who usually greets Hook & Press customers and passerbys in a nearby fountain went missing for a brief period of time on Sunday ...

There’s never a dull moment at the Zoological Wildlife Foundation (ZWF) in Miami, as Jacob Feder’s YouTube channel frequently shows. In this video, a chimpanzee stumbles upon a tiny yellow-bellied ...

Like many septuagenarians, Nicki relishes a long winter’s nap. Nicki is a 70-year-old turtle, specifically a yellow-bellied slider, and when she moves indoors from her backyard pond and nestles under ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Students from the Capital Region BOCES Career and Technical Education Center Pet Tech program are fostering a yellow-bellied slider turtle until it finds a permanent home. The ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission issued an order last week to temporarily stop the take or transport of all freshwater softshell turtle species or yellow-bellied ...

In the quiet of his Westminster backyard, Dean Pennington tends to his oldest housemates, Belle, Leonardo, Toby and Keith, on a daily basis. The four tortoises, each around 40 years old, have shared ...