After months of rehabilitation, six threatened turtles were released back into the wild last week by the San Antonio Zoo’s Center for Conservation and Research. The turtles — called rough-footed mud ...

Saving an endangered species is rarely easy, but the path to survival seems especially hard for Southern Arizona’s rarest reptile. The Sonoyta mud turtle’s only known home in the U.S. is a fragile, ...

A three-and-a-half year journey concludes with the San Antonio Zoo's release of six rough-footed mud turtles. The zoo's conservation team and Texas Parks and Wildlife have been working together to ...