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A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.

A Kelowna-area turtle expert cautions people to keep their distance during western painted turtle nesting season and to never release a pet turtle into the wild. 15°C.

The painted turtles get their name from the red, ... Once the soft-shelled eggs are ready to be laid, the female will travel on land and will deposit from four to 20 eggs in a shallow nest.

But we've been bitten a million times more by painted turtles than snapping turtles,“ she says. “They’re feisty little guys.” “Last year we got a call about a Blanding’s turtle that ...