World Turtle Day is celebrated every year on May 23rd. It is a special day to learn about turtles and tortoises and to help ...

They are known as box turtles because they can almost completely shut themselves up inside their shells. They live up and down the Eastern seaboard from Maine to Florida, and and as far west as Texas.

An army is on the move. It’s the turtles migrating from their winter hibernation spots to areas more conducive for breeding and egg-laying. This migration often requires turtles to traverse roadways, ...

Eastern box turtles carry both the armor that protects ... the more likely they are to being killed.” Hopkins said box turtles’ shells do not always protect them from predators.

An eastern box turtle kept as a pet has been rehabilitated by a rescue in New Jersey and got her first chance to see the sun in decades this month Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter ...

Rockalina was an adult eastern box turtle living in the wild when she was taken into a New York home in 1977. When a reptile rehabilitation center... After nearly 50 years cooped up inside ...