An employee first spotted the turtle in the koi pond. It was Saturday night inside the Wilbur D. May Museum in Reno. No bigger than a small hand, the shelled creature was there –– tentatively, by all ...

SAINT CLAIR – Growing up in the 1960s and ’70s in Arnots Addition, Nannette Brophy Major was raised in a household that always had a variety of pets including cats, dogs, birds, fish, hamsters, ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will add new protections for a rare turtle whose ridged shell looks like a topographic map, with the goal of keeping it from going extinct. The federal agency has ...