This year has been a great one for spotting Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina) in the Andorra Natural Area, the northern end of Wissahickon Park. We had three unique animals sighted: one ...

When she first met the eastern box turtle named Pokey, Cleo Bowen-Wiggins was still in diapers – far too young to recognize she was in the presence of a local celebrity. But like so many others, she ...

Federal authorities intercepted hundreds of box turtles smuggled out of the United States after discovering the animals ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Ijams Nature Center is giving advice to those who find injured animals by highlighting a one of a kind turtle. The center shared a photo of Trinity, a female eastern box turtle who ...

Nine Gulf Coast box turtles, found bound and taped inside shipping boxes by wildlife officials, are now recovering at the ...

HONG KONG (WKRC) - A man pled guilty to smuggling roughly 850 turtles worth a combined $1.4 million by hiding the reptiles inside socks. According to a press release from the United States Department ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, so it’s no surprise that many of the plants and animals chosen as symbols of the two states it straddles — North ...

It took 48 years for Rockalina to get a taste of earthworm. The eastern box turtle had lived since 1977 inside a New York home, never once venturing outside. Her nails curled into her feet, her mouth ...

A turtle who somehow shucked off his transmitter and absconded from a western Pennsylvania sanctuary was found 20 miles away more than three years later. The Tamarack Wildlife Center said this summer, ...

Snapping turtles are not the kind of animal that most people think of as “cute” with their funnel-shaped noses, thick, warty bodies, and armored tails. Box turtles are cute. Sea turtles are adorable.