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A new app called TurtlTracker helps Minnesotans track and protect turtles crossing roads, reducing road deaths and aiding ...
If you can’t stop to help a turtle cross the road, DCHS advises turning your hazard lights on and slowly driving around it. If stopping is possible, exercise caution and be mindful of the safety ...
If you spot one in the road, you can help it across, but only if it's safe to do so. Never pick turtles up by their tails and always move them in the direction they were headed.
After concerning dips in sea turtle populations between the 1960s and early 1990s, concerted conservation efforts by the Cooperative over the last few decades have helped restore turtle numbers.
Turtles aren’t known for their speed. In fact, it’s usually quite the opposite. (Slow and steady wins the race and all that.) But one type of turtle is actually incredibly quick, at least with ...
Florida’s Everglades have long been plagued by an invasive army of Burmese pythons, wreaking havoc on local wildlife and disrupting the ecosystem. In an unconventional experiment, honey badgers—known ...
US President Donald Trump came into office vowing to carry out the largest deportation program in history. Now, the ...
Snapping Turtles Have a Varied Diet Snapping turtles are opportunistic omnivores, which means they will eat almost everything that walks in front of them. That poor crab didn’t stand a chance!
Never take a wild turtle home with you. Turtle species native to Delaware are prohibited from being owned as pets, according to the Delaware Department of Agriculture, and red-eared sliders require a ...