The rewilding of 50 captive-bred spotted softshell turtles has sparked hope among conservationists for the future of the rare and threatened species in Vietnam, a country where softshell turtles are ...

QUINCY – The softshell turtles squirming inside bins in seafood sections of two Asian grocery stores in the city sell for about $10 a pound and are destined to become dinner or the main ingredient in ...

The Chinese soft-shell turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis) is naturally found in Asia particularly in China where it is commonly raised in farms for human consumption. The turtle, however, has been sighted ...

You can catch cholera from drinking contaminated water. You can catch it from raw or undercooked shellfish. And you can catch it from soft-shell turtles. That's the finding of a study published this ...