GREENVILLE — Conestee Nature Preserve is pleading for help as it searches for a missing animal ambassador, a juvenile box turtle named Michelle. About the size of a silver dollar, Michelle disappeared ...

Some success is being seen in the second month of what could be a years-long effort to eradicate invasive red-eared slider turtles and bullfrogs from the Cache Creek Nature Preserve. The effort began ...

A continuing eradication effort of bullfrogs and red-eared slider turtles at the Cache Creek Nature Preserve may be having an effect. While it’s still too soon to know how successful the removal ...

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or treating them like clothing. Biology disagrees. A turtle shell is not an ...

DU PAGE COUNTY, Ill. (WGN) — It’s been said that slow and steady wins the race, but expect leisurely-moving turtles to become more active in the summer months, the Forest Preserve District of DuPage ...

Unlike squirrels or deer that dart out of the woods and can startle drivers, turtles aren't going to surprise anyone and can’t take evasive maneuvers to avoid being struck. That’s why wildlife experts ...