Deborah Bower receives funding from the Australian Research Council, NSW Department of Environment and Planning, and the Northern Tablelands Local Land Services. Donald McKnight works for the Savanna ...

Foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Australian freshwater turtles and Aboriginal culture -- Long-neck turtles : Genus Chelodina Fitzinger, 1826 -- Snapping turtles : Genus Elseya Gray, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock To protect the River Murray's turtles, a team in South Australia has turned to four-legged allies. The ...

Nocturnal basking has only recently been reported in wild freshwater turtles, but this study suggests that the behaviour is widespread and occurs in many species. Postdoctoral Researcher at La Trobe ...

There are a few more white-throated snapping turtles in Queensland, Australia than researchers previously thought, which is great news for the 'bum-breathing', critically endangered species. While the ...

Freshwater turtles live in farm dams, creeks and wetlands across Australia. They often travel over land when these wetlands or farm dams dry up, or during breeding season. Australia's unique ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

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James Patrick Rule receives funding from an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP180101797). Museums Victoria receives support for research on The Lost World of Bayside from Bayside City ...