Red-eared sliders make excellent pets for both beginner and expert reptile enthusiasts alike, but they need quite large ...

The hands-on event trained dozens of utility vegetation management staff and contractors in identifying and safely relocating ...

Turtles found in the wild and relocated carelessly to unfamiliar habitat can search in vain for their original domain. That poignant truth is one of many facts about Eastern box turtles known by ...

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 ...

A young boy found Rockalina, a wild eastern box turtle, while playing near his New ... But their numbers have dwindled, thanks to habitat loss, vehicle strikes and people taking them in as pets ...

The eastern box turtle is facing population decline due to habitat loss. A species of turtle has taken one step closer to becoming Pennsylvania’s state reptile. The House Game and Fisheries ...

Removing it from its habitat, “can severely affect local populations because turtles grow and reproduce slowly,” Hart said in a department news release. • Joining Ornate Box Turtle Watch and ...

The box turtles, native to eastern North America, were found at a nearby international mail facility in Los Angeles about a week prior, packaged in a series of boxes bound for Asia. “These guys were ...

The John Ball Zoo is releasing their eastern box ... the turtles as well. She said if you're driving and you see a turtle on or near the road to slow down, as it could be a turtle habitat.