The turtles they hope to trap—red-eared sliders, common snapping, spiny softshell, painted, map turtles, and musks — are all obligate nasal breathers. This means that the traps must be placed with at ...

A loggerhead sea turtle, a species usually found in warmer waters much farther south, was spotted near the Washington-British Columbia border in the Strait of Juan de Fuca on Sunday. A father and son ...

CORPUS CHRISTI — The first two traps yielded three blue crabs and one stone crab. The diamondback terrapins living around the Nueces River mouth hadn't taken the bait. Because of Nueces Bay's salt ...

Some success is being seen in the second month of what could be a years-long effort to eradicate invasive red-eared slider turtles and bullfrogs from the Cache Creek Nature Preserve. The effort began ...

They looked like modified crab traps, those dozen or so mesh-wire cages that appeared here and there in the shallows of the river slough I often fish. I'd heard of these things — turtle traps. They ...