He’s one of a dozen red-eared slider and yellow-bellied slider turtles looking for a home in the D.C. region. The Humane Rescue Alliance in the District said it has a higher number of turtles ...

Housing the Yellow-Bellied Slider Aquariums are good for young sliders, but as these turtles mature, their size makes housing them a bit more challenging. The ideal tank size for an adult slider ...

Turtles can live up to 40 years in captivity and the tortoise up to 150 years, with the longest living one at 326 years old. But don’t put them in with fish, as they will eat them.

Female yellow-bellied sliders lay anywhere from two to 20 eggs. They bury the eggs in sandy soil, which is where their parental duties end. For the next three months, the eggs incubate in the ...

IRELAND NEEDS to guard against an invasion of yellow-bellied sliders – no, not the evasive political species from Kildare Street, but the semi-aquatic turtle species from the US.