Doug Wood has spent most of his life in the outdoors, enjoying experiences that led him to write more than 30 books for children and adults, including the popular ecological fable "Old Turtle." ...

A wise turtle lived by the river in a rocky home, not far from a whirlpool. He lived quietly and spent his days sunning himself on a log in a shallow cove. A few blackberries here, some water ...

Old Turtle: Questions of the Heart Douglas Wood, illus. by Greg Ruth. Scholastic Press, $19.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-439-32111-2 ...

On land The Nature Conservancy acquired in 1989 near South Mountain to restore habitat needed by the diminutive bog turtle, surveys have found a 61-year-old turtle. It’s the oldest bog turtle ...

The world was very different when the "old lady" clawed out of her shell. It happened sometime before 1932, likely near Pinckney, Michigan, where the 3R11L turtle, a Blanding's turtle known ...

[Related: 150 million-year-old turtle ‘pancake’ found in Germany.] The DNA comes from the remains of a turtle shell first uncovered in 2015 in the Chagres Formation on Panama’s Caribbean coast.