The Eastern box turtle was found with a bright blue shell — and a layer of red paint underneath, suggesting she’d been ...

When a new homeowner moved into her house, she discovered a turtle with a bright blue shell in the yard. Wildlife rehab ...

When a Kentucky woman purchased a home in the town of Campbellsville, she had no idea that she would also be taking in an unexpected animal: an Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina) with a ...

When you move into a new home, you expect to make some surprising finds. Of course, these typically involve decor choices the ...

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 ...

In cartoons, when a turtle is spooked, it retreats into and closes up its shell. While used for comic effect, this imagery is based in fact — although not all turtles are capable of this protective ...