Joe Clemens of Irwin has a dangerous hands-on hobby. Clemens is a fourth-generation turtle noodler, a pursuit where one catches snapping turtles with their bare hands from underwater holes in the ...
When temperatures drop, some water turtles — including painted turtles and common snapping turtles — search out the soft ...
SCOTTS VALLEY — Tucked into a small oasis embedded in suburbia, a population of turtles is quietly fighting for its lives, backed by its own squad of researchers. The East Glenwood Preserve’s Santos ...
The great egret had returned on a late July morning to hunt in the shallow pond that borders our backyard. This is the second time in 22 years that we have seen that species here, other than an ...
LAKEWOOD, Pierce County — Nearly a year they wait, munching on crickets, mealworms and small chunks of fish to pass the time. But Friday morning, their time came. At a small pond in the Lakewood area ...
A red-eared slider turtle sunbathes on a rock in the pond at Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden in Santa Barbara. Credit: Serena Guentz / Noozhawk photo The population of red-eared slider turtles in the ...
Sidney Woodruff has spent multiple summers hiking six or seven miles to a remote corner of Yosemite National Park where she has camped out next to ponds and lakes. "At night," Woodruff says, "you look ...