He’s one of a dozen red-eared slider and yellow-bellied slider turtles looking for a home in the D.C. region. The Humane Rescue Alliance in the District said it has a higher number of turtles ...

Learn about different types of turtles including the red-eared slider, eastern box turtle, and yellow-bellied turtles, along with their benefits.

Turtles can live up to 40 years in captivity and the tortoise up to 150 years, with the longest living one at 326 years old. But don’t put them in with fish, as they will eat them.

If you were hoping to own one of those cute little turtles with the red stripes near their ears, forget it. The state classified red-eared sliders as a “conditional species” and banned the ...

"This turtle that was rescued, its skull and body are yellow, truly it is very rare,” Wildlife Warden Bhanoomitra Acharya told Asian News International. “I have not seen such a turtle in my ...