PORTLAND, Ore. — Eleven tiny, endangered northwestern pond turtle babies have made their home in the Oregon Zoo - part of a program to help keep the little reptiles from getting eaten by invasive ...

Building a massive indoor turtle pond is no small feat. This video captures the team’s progress through every stage, excavation, plumbing, sealing, and filling — while revealing the design choices ...

LAKEWOOD, Wash. — Three decades of love and care is bringing a species back from the brink. "Every one is marked with an individual ID," Woodland Park Zoo animal curator Kevin Murphy said, as he ...

EGREMONT — Ari Zorn panicked on Tuesday when he first saw construction near Smiley’s Pond, where legions of turtles and other creatures have met their maker in the crevices of a dam over the years. It ...

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 ...