It's an annual effort that started about eight years ago — dozens of volunteers walking up and down the roads in Dundas, helping turtles cross the road. Each year, volunteers from Dundas Turtle Watch ...
Menita Prasad knows that turtles don't get the same kind of attention from the public as a "cute, fluffy mammal." The director of animal care at the Greater Vancouver Zoo says that's one reason why Br...
It was the oddly shaped bulges in the man's pants that first drew the attention of the border guard working at the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel. And it was the subsequent investigation that revealed 51 live...
Why did the snapping turtle try to cross the road? At this time of year, the answer is likely because it wanted to lay some eggs. But what to do if you spot a snapping turtle, which can be aggressive...
May 29, 2018· turtle, a reptile [1] of the order Chelonia, with strong, beaked, toothless jaws and, usually, an armorlike shell. The shell normally consists of bony plates overlaid with horny shields....
Two years after border officials discovered live turtles, turtle eggs and equipment to breed turtles in packages marked as "children's building blocks," a Calgary man has been fined $35,000 for the il...
Calgary-based naturalist Brian Keating's love of turtles began close to home. While living and working in the Creston Valley area in southeastern British Columbia some years ago, he arrived home to fi...
About 99 in 100 newly hatched turtle babies are female at one of the biggest sea turtle nesting sites in the world — and warming temperatures are to blame for the lack of male babies, a new study sugg...
Knowlton, Que., resident Jessica Brown was driving into nearby Sutton about a week ago when she noticed what looked like "a big pile of dirt on the road." Brown said she slowed down because she knew i...
Knowlton, Que., resident Jessica Brown was driving into nearby Sutton about a week ago when she noticed what looked like "a big pile of dirt on the road." Brown said she slowed down because she knew i...
The Toronto Zoo and Crime Stoppers launched a campaign this week aimed at educating people to help put an end to illegal turtle trade. “Given the length of time most turtles take to mature and reprodu...
A turtle wandering the streets of Burnaby on June 23 was handed over to the B.C. SPCA, but a quick inspection revealed that the shelled reptile was not a regular pet turtle. "This amazing animal is a ...
As far as sea turtles go, Isabel and Ruby are two special leatherbacks. Last summer, they were captured and tagged off the coast of Nova Scotia. Ten months and thousands of kilometres later, they were...
A turtle expert in Windsor, Ont., says because it's illegal to import turtles without a permit into Canada the high demand for the shelled reptiles may be pushing smugglers to bring them into the coun...
Slow and steady might win the race, but sea turtles in Florida are competing with a new challenge.They’re contending withclimate change, which in Florida, is leading to the hottest summers on record.T...
Cape Town, South Africa (26 March 2026)– A courageous team of open-water swimmers will embark on an extraordinary adventure between 14 and 28 April, braving the chilly seas from Robben Island to Grang...
Slow and steady might win the race, but sea turtles in Florida are competing with a new challenge.They’re contending withclimate change, which in Florida, is leading to the hottest summers on record.T...
It's a journey that begins at the Montreal Biodôme and ends in the green embrace of Quebec's wilderness all in an effort to save a species that can use all the help it can get to once again thrive in ...
Searching the river for vulnerable wood turtles Researchers have just finished combing some sandy beaches along the Coulonge River in western Quebec's Pontiac region for wood turtles, designated a vul...
Searching the river for vulnerable wood turtles Researchers have just finished combing some sandy beaches along the Coulonge River in western Quebec's Pontiac region for wood turtles, designated a vul...
