AMES, Iowa – At a Biotechnology Council event a few years ago, Nicole Valenzuela’s ears perked up when she heard what a group of researchers in Iowa State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine ...

Turtle on Speed, represented by the cryptocurrency ticker $TURT, is a unique and evolving project within the crypto ecosystem, originally launched as a meme coin on ...

Soft-shelled turtles refuse to be typecast. Unlike their bulky, slow-moving cousins, soft-shelled turtles have adaptations for speed both on the land and in the water. The soft-shelled turtle is found ...

MAGALIA — Some folks are dog lovers; some people give their hearts to their cats. A Magalia man is dedicated to turtles and tortoises. He”s caring for about 30 of them in his grassy yard with some in ...

Australian freshwater turtle embryos can sense how developed other babies are in their eggs and then speed up their own growth to hatch with the most advanced of their siblings, according to new ...

A Florida turtle is hopefully continuing to swim comfortably after surviving a head on high-speed collision with not one, but two cars on Interstate 4 near Deltona on Monday, according the Daytona ...

An endangered western pond turtle awaits its release back into the wild Thursday at a refuge area in Lakewood, Pierce County. It was one of 26 of the 10-month-old reptiles released there and at an ...

Wanted: Volunteers in the eight-town Quinnipiac River watershed willing to survey populations of endangered box turtles and wood turtles. Applicants must have patience, a keen eye and a warm heart; ...

NEW BERLIN — The competition is tough and at times slow, but all-in-all, everyone wins during the annual New Berlin Turtle Derby which was held on Thursday. More than 20 people competed in the 53rd ...

Iowa State University professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology Nicole Valenzuela, right, holding an adult painted turtle inside her lab, with research scientist Itzel Sifuentes-Romero. A ...

Researchers developed protocols for growing organoids that mimic a turtle liver, the first organoids developed for a turtle and only the second for any reptile. The discovery will aid deeper study of ...