The Turtle Conservation Ecology Lab has been collecting data on Eastern box turtle habits since 2022. The team started ...

China’s exotic pet market is driving a spike in animal smuggling, U.S. wildlife officials say. But these turtles are getting ...

The Rolling Hills Zoo has taken in 83 ornate box turtles confiscated from the illegal global wildlife trade.

Investigators said that these turtles were going to be sent to Asia, where they would be sold as exotic pets.

A wildlife photographer came to the rescue after spotting a turtle struggling on its back near Lake Apopka, Florida. Jim Uhing was exploring the area when he noticed the box turtle lying upside down ...

The Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo has helped rescue and rehabilitate more than 800 North American box turtles ...

Of Ohio’s 11 turtle species, the box turtle is the only one that lives an exclusively terrestrial lifestyle. Resembling tiny tortoises, box turtles are most likely to be found plodding through upland ...

A box turtle never forgets. Missourians will see many signs of a box turtle’s reliance on memory in the weeks ahead when people will observe turtle crossing roads throughout the region. These turtle ...

An ambitious long-term study of box turtles seeks to study the population across North Carolina to determine the health of the species over a hundred years. With a story about an animal that inspires ...

The eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina) is one of many wonderful turtle species native to Georgia. John Jensen, herpetologist with Georgia Department of Natural Resources, told me more about box ...