The bog turtle population is dwindling due to a shrinking habitat and the illegal pet trade. Zoo Knoxville is giving the tiny ...

You can also identify the bog turtle by its brownish-black shell, covered in scutes, the bony plates on a turtle shell. Biologists can tell the age of a young bog turtle by looking at the scutes.

The bog turtle population is dwindling due to a ... a painless notch cut into part of each turtle's shell. Since the program began, about 280 bog turtles have gotten their start in life at ...

This close-up of a bog turtle's shell in Floyd County on May 5, 2015, shows not only the turtle's beauty but the rings within the shell plates, or scutes, that can be counted to estimate a turtle ...

The bog turtle population is dwindling due to a ... a painless notch cut into part of each turtle's shell. Since the program began, about 280 bog turtles have gotten their start in life at ...

The bog turtle population is dwindling due to a ... a painless notch cut into part of each turtle's shell. Since the program began, about 280 bog turtles have gotten their start in life at ...

The bog turtle population is dwindling due to a ... a painless notch cut into part of each turtle's shell. Since the program began, about 280 bog turtles have gotten their start in life at ...

The bog turtle population is dwindling due to a ... a painless notch cut into part of each turtle's shell. Since the program began, about 280 bog turtles have gotten their start in life at ...

The bog turtle population is dwindling due to a ... a painless notch cut into part of each turtle's shell. Since the program began, about 280 bog turtles have gotten their start in life at ...

The bog turtle population is dwindling due to a ... a painless notch cut into part of each turtle's shell. Since the program began, about 280 bog turtles have gotten their start in life at ...

There are fewer bog turtles because of their rare − and shrinking − habitat, along with dangers posed by poaching and the illegal pet trade. Zoo Knoxville's head-start program brings in bog ...