Freshwater turtle conservationists are celebrating successful breeding and habitat protection programs that have offered ...

Australian freshwater turtles are facing an alarming trend. Almost half of these species are listed as vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered. The Mary River turtle (Elusor macrurus ...

A turtle native ... hook in the West Australian town of Geraldton. The Chelodina steindachneri – also called a "dinner-plate turtle" – was found in the Chapman River in early January with ...

"This project's working and has potential for many other turtles and many other river systems, both in Australia and internationally. "That's what's really exciting to me." ...

(The familiar box turtle also hibernates, but on land.) An Australian species, the Fitzroy River turtle, hardly ever surfaces, but obtains oxygen from water pumped through its cloaca, or posterior ...