As we humans warm ourselves with space heaters, coats and gloves, western painted turtles are at the bottom of our region’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A midland painted turtle. Unlike its land cousin the box turtle, painted turtles do not have a hinged bottom shell that closes ...

Brumation is a hibernation-like state that can occur in some reptiles when the environmental temperatures get colder and the hours of daylight decrease. While an animal’s environment would trigger ...