On a small island off the coast of Vietnam, a cow herder paused near a rice field and noticed a brown and yellow creature hidden under the grass. He picked up the animal and decided to keep it as a ...

“It was very heartbreaking,” said Emanuel, who got Myrtle when he was 6 from a pet store. Emanuel has always had a love of tortoises, she said, and whenever she would find tiny turtles in her ...

The small, 4.5-inch turtle can be recognized it by its black shell adorned by round yellow spots. The turtle, which is considered threatened in Ohio due to habitat loss and the illegal pet trade ...

A pet Vietnamese pond turtle, or Mauremys annamensis ... The smaller turtle weighed about 11 ounces and was “picked up in a small stream” in 2022, researchers said. One of the Vietnamese ...