Rockalina, an eastern box turtle that spent nearly 50 years in a dark basement living mostly on cat food, has met another ...

Her rescuers say the once-shut-down turtle is now showing natural behaviors they feared she had lost forever ...

JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County — Drivers near Sturgeon City may notice new turtle crossing signs aimed at protecting local ...

Now that it's officially summer in Greater Cincinnati, you may notice a familiar hard-shell creature: the box turtle. Eastern box turtles are most commonly found in the woodlands throughout Ohio and ...

Indian River Park is their natural habitat. They creep and crawl through the park — mostly unobserved — 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They move silently through their surroundings. Their natural ...

An ambitious long-term study of box turtles seeks to study the population across North Carolina to determine the health of the species over a hundred years. With a story about an animal that inspires ...

The eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina) is one of many wonderful turtle species native to Georgia. John Jensen, herpetologist with Georgia Department of Natural Resources, told me more about box ...