To ensure a future for these endangered turtles, scientists need to know how many are left Stephen Taglieri Wood turtles are made for their environment. They blend in with muddy rocks in the streambed ...
Wood turtle photo by Diane Baedeker Petit, USDA. This photo is available for media use. “Wood turtles are dying out mostly because people are degrading the waterways where they live,” said Mollie ...
NORTH OF DULUTH - About 200 yards off a railroad grade, researcher Maddy Cochrane waved her antenna in a semicircle to hear the strongest beep on her VHF radio receiver, then bolted off in that ...
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A recent viral trend on social media has been the sharing of photographs from 2016. Users of Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and ...
Looks like: The upper shell, or carapace, of the wood turtle looks as though it could be carved from dark wood. As the turtle grows, concentric rings of plate-like scales called scutes create the ...
Mark Powell can talk wood turtles for as long as you let him: what they eat, when they breed, where they nest, the social tendencies of males versus females, their preferred habitat based on the ...
On a sunny April morning, Bryan Windmiller, director of conservation for Zoo New England, and I sat about 10 feet apart on two “socially distanced rocks” next to a brook in a suburb west of Boston. As ...
The wood turtle that Rick Koval and I found during the Fourth of July holiday weekend almost set a record. Our wood turtle measured nine inches in length, a mere three-eighths of an inch off the world ...
In a town in eastern Massachusetts there's a baseball field with a secret. The woods and wetlands around it are home to about 11 wood turtles. The turtles are so rare that conservationists want the ...