Yellow-bellied slider. These turtles are popular choices because they’re active during the day and fun to watch. Yellow-bellied sliders grow to be 9-13 inches long and 30-40 years old.

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.

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 ...

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.

Accumulation of coal combustion residues and their immunological effects in the yellow-bellied slider ( Trachemys scripta scripta ). Environmental Pollution, 2017; 224: 810 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol ...

After his unexpected alarm call, the yellow-bellied slider turtle, tried to manoeuvre the gator off his shell but it refused to budge and stayed put.

The yellow-bellied slider turtle was most likely abandoned as it grew too big to be a pet, and was found by a couple walking along a beach near Fareham, Hampshire.

A photograph of the 'turtle' was quickly emailed to him and he believes it to be a Terrapin called 'Yellow-Bellied Slider' which is native to Florida and presumably came over on the Gulf Stream.

Yellow-bellied slider turtles are native to America and usually found in swamps and marshes in Florida and West Virginia. But one was recently spotted emerging from the waters at a wildlife ...