Mehrdad (He/Him) is a Senior Staff Writer from Iran. He started writing about video games when he was a high-school student. He loves playing competitive FPS games such as Rainbow Six Siege and ...

The holiday season can be a stressful time for people, with travel, budgets, families and sky high expectations. That’s why it’s important to take a moment and breathe. And in case you can’t remember ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Snapping turtles are not the kind of animal that most people think of as “cute” with their funnel-shaped noses, thick, warty ...

A red-eared slider in Maharashtra. The turtle originated in the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. | Rahul Kulkarni / Mongabay India Around three months ago, Adithyan D Thambi, a Class 6 ...

In 2000, the California-based non-profit American Tortoise Rescue dubbed May 23 World Turtle Day to “spread to the word about turtles and tortious being endangered around the globe.” In addition to ...

So you just got a new pet turtle or tortoise, and you’re obsessed. (How could you not be?!) And as you’re looking at his sweet little face, you know you want to give him the absolute best name ...

Boxed in by a freeway, a golf course and a neighborhood, it’s a miracle that San Francisco’s Mountain Lake even exists. But not only is the tiny lake—located on the south end of the city’s Presidio ...

After the Pink Bloom, an alien flower that choked the Avala Pandi canal at Perambra, yet another invasive species is posing a major threat to the biodiversity of waterbodies in the State. This time, ...

May 23 is World Turtle Day, a date that advocates for the protection and conservation of the world’s hundreds of turtle species. Turtles are threatened by the illegal pet trade, habitat destruction, ...