This captivating headline on a press release from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission grabbed our attention straight away Monday morning: Western chicken turtle information wanted. Agreed! Aren’t we ...

ARKANSAS, USA — The Arkansas Game & Fish Commission (AGFC) is asking for help searching for a rare species of turtle found in the state: The western chicken turtle. Sightings of the Chicken turtle ...

First Landing State Park, where Spanish moss drips from cypress trees and bald eagles fly, is known across the state as home to unusual plants and animals. The state park visited most often by ...

Turtles in Oklahoma are always worth a second look. Seventeen kinds live here, including 15 kinds of aquatic turtles and two species of land-dwelling turtle, according to the Oklahoma Department of ...

There are about 300 species of turtles in the world, and 16 of them can be found in Arkansas. "That may not seem like a whole lot, but it's actually close to about 5% of the diversity in the whole ...