The Western painted turtle – found in Inland Northwest ponds, lakes and slow-moving waters that have soft, muddy bottoms – has a way of being inconspicuously obvious.

The 10-year project began in 2019, although the zoo was releasing turtles before that and has freed around 3,000 of them over ...

Once they reach that size, not many things mess with painted turtles. Foxes and skunks will harass them and try to get a morsel out of the shell, as will blue herons. It's the eggs and juveniles ...

If they do survive, the painted turtle can live 20 to 30 years and grow to be the size of a dinner plate. They are the most northerly occurring and most widespread turtles in North America. Young ...

Both western painted and western pond turtles reach mating maturity at between ages 7 and 12. Battle of the sexes: Within a narrow range, the temperatures to which eggs in the nest are exposed ...

About Painted Turtles The average painted turtle grows to be between 4 and 12 inches long with males being smaller than females. In the wild, painted turtles can live to be over 50 years old and ...

An adult western painted turtle can go without oxygen for up to 30 hours at room temperature, and if the temperature drops to 37 degrees, it can hold its breath for up to four months at a stretch.

The western painted turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage. Genome Biology, 2013 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-3-r28 ...

Eggs of the turtle Chrysemys picta bellii from four western Nebraska populations were incubated under laboratory conditions to compare egg size and hatchling size as measures of offspring size among ...

The western painted turtle is endangered and it is the province’s only remaining native freshwater turtle, McTavish said. The group estimates there are about 150 adult turtles in the lake and an ...

The western painted turtle is endangered and it is the province’s only remaining native freshwater turtle, McTavish said. The group estimates there are about 150 adult turtles in the lake and an ...