A new study finds that turtles are really good at carrying the bacteria that cause the potentially fatal disease. You can catch cholera from drinking contaminated water. You can catch it from raw or ...

Indiana DNR shares how to help native Indiana turtles cross the road safely and why they don't make good pets.

The backyard drama last week wasn't exactly cat-and-mouse. Imitating his purring ancestors, the neighborhood's resident black-and-white feline warily crept across wet grass to get a closer look at an ...

Turtles are often unfairly maligned as fish killers that ruin the ecosystems of our ponds, rivers, and streams. The facts are that many turtles are omnivores and consume large amounts of aquatic ...

An ancient species that has endured for over a century now faces imminent extinction. The Yangtze giant softshell turtle, regarded as the largest freshwater turtle on Earth, has only two known ...

No, it's not a slow news day, but we do need to talk about turtles. Hoosiers may be seeing more of them crossing roadways during the months of May, June and July near wetlands, lakes and rivers. Much ...