Distinguishing characteristics: A red-eared slider's carapace (top shell) is olive-brown and is overlaid with black and yellow lines. The plastron (bottom shell) is yellow with each section (scute ...

If you spot a red-eared slider slowly crossing the road, Scibetta said it’s OK to pick up the turtle to get it safely to the other side. If you find one in your yard, take it to the nearest body ...

Red-eared slider turtles are active pets that enjoy swimming and diving. Captive-born red-eared sliders tend to be friendlier and more outgoing than those born in the wild.

Most red-eared sliders grow to around 9 to 12 inches long and can live about 40 years in the wild. They’re not tortoises, but they are terrapins.

Lifestyle. Red-eared sliders are semiaquatic — they live in water and on land. You may notice your slider relaxing on a rock in your terrarium in between swims. Diet.

Like many turtles, red-eared sliders are also extremely long-lived creatures, often outlasting their human owners. Cramer knows of one red-eared slider that, at 87 years old, is now on its third ...

In these habitats, male red-eared sliders will engage in courtship behaviors as long as it's warm enough for them to swim around. "They are pretty single-minded in focus," Pauly said, adding that ...

Red-eared slider turtles are cute enough to be one of the most popular reptile pets sold in Connecticut, but a legislative committee voted Wednesday to ban importing them into this state because ...

More than 52 million red-eared sliders were legally exported from the United States between 1989 and 1997, many of them to China, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.