Ornate box turtles and their kin face steep challenges in today’s world, but people can help out by raising the deck height ...

Ryan Kellman / NPR In the back of an office building, in a small room that smells like rotting strawberries, a criminal investigator watches his evidence crawl around on wood chips in five open ...

Garden State Tortoise founder Chris Leone gets plenty of requests to take in turtles people can no longer care for. Rockalina's case was different. "Like we do in any rescue, we ask to see the photos ...

Over the years Pennsylvania has appointed an assemblage of flora and fauna to be official representatives of the commonwealth. To that end, a congregation of various critters have risen to that lofty ...

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 ...

Swartz Creek resident Kim Powell estimates she's saved "at least" 500 turtles since her father taught her how to help them safely cross roads when she was a kid. "Since I was a kid, I do it every time ...

Researchers used dogs to locate and track Eastern box turtles at Sarett Nature Center in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The dogs helped researchers capture a record number of turtles, aiming to understand ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. TORRANCE, Calif. — In the back of an ...