He is small enough to creep inside a matchbox, if he ever needs more protection than his own tiny shell. And this Chinese box turtle, which hatched at Bristol Zoo three weeks ago, might be glad of the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Deep in the veterinary quarantine building behind the scenes at John Ball Zoo are 12 tiny eastern box turtles, doing their best to grow as big as they can. They may be about the ...

An eastern box turtle likely older than 70 years of age recently reunited with a brother and sister who first encountered it in the same central Pennsylvania field in 1967, more than a half-century ...

I found my first one of 2018 in early April — a three-toed box turtle trying to make its way across a busy rural highway. The poor reptile was having a difficult time. Frightened by the vehicles ...

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 ...

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 TRAIL, N.C. — A North Carolina animal rescue group is appealing to women not to throw out their old bras, but instead to send... An old turtle has been hanging around a Dauphin County farm for ...

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 ...