Steve Upesleja swears the creature he sees swimming in the stormwater pond outside of his balcony is a green sea turtle. Upesleja, a resident of Hilton Head Beach and Tennis Club, said he originally ...
What looks and feels like a river rock, has four webbed feet, a pointy snout with beady eyes, buries itself during winter, and dines on small frogs, fish, aquatic insects and plants? These are ...
“Pond turtle” is something of a misnomer, because this reptile more frequently lives in rivers and spends a lot of time in terrestrial habitats. As the West Coast's only native freshwater turtle, the ...
An employee first spotted the turtle in the koi pond. It was Saturday night inside the Wilbur D. May Museum in Reno. No bigger than a small hand, the shelled creature was there –– tentatively, by all ...
Turtles dug themselves deep into the mud while pumps whirred and drained a mucky slurry from the pond at Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens. Spencer Frasher, who’s been working at the pond almost daily, ...
WEST LINN, Ore. -- To really appreciate the art and the heart of Jan Rimerman, you have to start with her turtles. “Baryshnikov is a Russian Tortoise and he’s quite sassy,” Jan said holding up the ...
John Maerz, a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, knew there were non-native turtles in the Mary Kahrs Warnell ...
“Pond turtle” is something of a misnomer, because this reptile more frequently lives in rivers and spends a lot of time in terrestrial habitats. As the West Coast's only native freshwater turtle, the ...