As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s collection of nature books and daydream about the creatures within. One species ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) – The Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center was a part of an exceptionally uncommon box turtle hatch that has gone viral. The center welcomed four Eastern Box Turtles, two of which ...

A young hawk found itself in a tricky situation while trying to get itself a little dinner, a Missouri nature center discovered. Some helpful staff members at the Runge Nature Center in Jefferson City ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A homeowner was in for a surprise when they discovered an Eastern box turtle digging a hole in their garden. The homeowner took to Reddit on September 21 to share that the unexpected visitor had laid ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Caldwell, Kansas, is the Ornate Box Turtle capital of the world. The story designation dates back to 1986 when a sixth-grade class in Caldwell realized that the state of Kansas ...