You just never know what will come crawling up in your yard these days. But I am glad I saw this little guy and had the wherewithal to snap a few photos before it left my yard. Which makes me wonder, ...

Howard doesn’t know how to catch his own food. He has no clue how to protect himself from a predator. And he is afraid of his own shadow. The yellow-bellied slider turtle has spent his whole life in a ...

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 ...

Meet Iceberg, a red-eared slider turtle. He was rescued by a Good Samaritan who brought him to the shelter after he was abandoned in his previous home. (Former companion Britten, a yellow-bellied ...

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 ...

A terrapin dumped in a pond during the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ craze in the 1990s has been discovered alive 25 years later. The yellow-bellied slider turtle has amazed wildlife experts by ...