After being yanked from her home in the wild and forced to be a house pet for 50 years, without proper care, the turtle is doing much better ...

A Susquehanna Valley lawmaker is proposing a bill that would make the eastern box turtle Pennsylvania's official state reptile. Rep. Perry Stambaugh, R-District 86, representing Juniata and Perry ...

Thanks to first-grade students at Juniata Elementary School in Mifflintown, a species of turtle is one step closer to ...

“We decided to use this opportunity to learn as much as we can about these animals,” Tuberville said. In general, box turtles in the wild don’t roam very far away from the nests where they ...

The eastern box turtle is collected in enormous numbers for the illegal wildlife trade. Only a portion of this trade is detected, and when it is, wildlife agencies must decide what to do with those ...

Box turtles generally live for 25 to 35 years ... Pennsylvania’s state animal is the white-tailed deer.

Sea turtles already crowd the foyer when I arrive at the Massachusetts Audubon Society’s nature center in Wellfleet. People hustle to put each animal on a clean towel in a cardboard box that ...

Box turtle is the common name for several species ... to clarify certain requirements and make clear the status of these animals,” he added. Earlier, Shavez said the Borneo Wildlife Ambassador ...

Eastern box turtles are native to forest regions in the eastern U.S ... people were convicted and fined for the unlawful possession of protected and endangered animals. Their crimes were exposed after ...

A Pennsylvania lawmaker proposed a bill that would make the Eastern Box Turtle Pennsylvania’s official state reptile. House Bill 401, created by Rep. Perry Stambaugh ...