Western painted turtles grow to be 4-12 inches long and can be up to 50 years old. Like other breeds, ... your pet turtle should be kept in an enclosed tank.

Menita Prasad knows that turtles don't rate the same kind of attention from the public as a "cute, fluffy mammal." ...

Small, colorful, and a lover of habitats with sandy substrates, Red-clawed Crabs are some of the best aquarium pets that aren ...

Under Vermont's newly-passed Act 47 of 2025 the sale of pond slider turtles, which includes the popular red-eared slider, is ...

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.

That bond reached its pinnacle last month when he asked the Eastern painted turtle to be a flower girl at his wedding. Paul McDonald was 8 years old at the time when he found Colors.