A bale of Arakan forest turtles — a critically endangered species — were welcomed to the world recently at an aquarium in Tennessee. The Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, Tennessee, announced the ...

Chattanooga, Tenn. (WDEF) – The Tennessee Aquarium has partnered up with the American Zoo Association to start a turtle conservation project. The Aquarium raises these turtles from the time they hatch ...

Braving chest-deep water, boot-sucking mud and punishing heat in the cypress swamps of West Tennessee, biologists from the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute and several partner organizations ...

(WGHP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Tuesday that it would consider protecting the southern population of the imperiled bog turtle under the Endangered Species Act. The agency now ...

Tennessee Aquarium turtle keepers are in the middle of a baby boom right now. In the past week, four yellow-blotched map turtles, four red-headed Amazon River turtles and two spotted turtles have ...

CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – The Tennessee Aquarium is proud to announce two more members of the endangered Four-eyed turtle population. The babies hatched this month at the Turtle Nursery at the Aquarium.

Wildlife veterinarian Matt Allender will share stories from his career studying box turtles in Tennessee and penguins in Peru ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.— Today the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission is considering an emergency rulemaking petition submitted by health and conservation groups to ban commercial harvest of wild ...

May 11 (UPI) --Wildlife officials in Tennessee are working to determine how a rare turtle turned up nearly 100 miles away from its natural habitat. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency received ...

The Tennessee Aquarium isn't just celebrating turtles this year - it's also working to save them. Experts say turtles are an amazing example of biological adaptability and endurance and have carved ...

A common box turtle slow-steps onto a two-lane byway, carrying the weight of its ornate shell and a bounty on its head. In recent decades, the box turtle has become one of North America's most heavily ...