Doug Huntman got his turtle when he was 12. “Obviously I have a lot of gray hair on my face now,” he says. “I'm 55, so that ...

Cape May, Naturally is a twice-monthly column about nature written by a rotating cast of experts at the New Jersey Audubon. I ...

The box turtle, roughly six inches in length with a shell that looks as though the yellow sun has spattered a shade dappled pattern across it, is the longest living North American turtle.

The eastern box turtle is celebrating 30 years as the most highly honored reptile in the Great Smoky Mountains. Here's how it won that status.

After Orbie the Wonder Dog, a Labrador mix, moved into a residence on Miller Avenue across from Indian River Park, he quickly developed a proclivity for sniffing out the indigenous box turtles.

Box turtles can be found statewide in Louisiana. In fact, in 2021, a sting caught a couple in Livingston Parish who was illegally selling box turtles. Although it may be tempting to pick them up ...

This wrinkled ol' pal, found across much of the U. S., may be in decline. A huge study in North Carolina plans to track box turtles for 100 years, to learn how to best protect them.

A New York resident has admitted he tried to smuggle protected turtles worth more than $1 million from the United States to ...

This wrinkled ol' pal, found across much of the U. S., may be in decline. A huge study in North Carolina plans to track box turtles for 100 years, to learn how to best protect them.

Wei Qiang Lin pleaded guilty to "falsely labeling live turtles as fake toys" and exporting them in delivery boxes to Hong ...