On a warm morning in Virginia, a wildlife researcher walks slowly through a patchwork of forest and farmland, eyes scanning the ground for something most people would never notice. Somewhere under ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, so it’s no surprise that many of the plants and animals chosen as symbols of the two states it straddles - North ...

Garden State Tortoise founder Chris Leone gets plenty of requests to take in turtles people can no longer care for. Rockalina's case was different. "Like we do in any rescue, we ask to see the photos ...

Indian River Park is their natural habitat. They creep and crawl through the park — mostly unobserved — 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They move silently through their surroundings. Their natural ...

Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering designating the eastern box turtle as the state reptile. The bill's inspiration came from a first-grade class that noticed Pennsylvania lacked a state reptile.

Imagine that your body is 10 times the size of your limbs. Each of your four legs are short, thick, round and tipped with long narrow claws. Your body is also your home that you carry around with you ...

AGAWAM — Mobie sniffed out three eastern box turtles Wednesday morning, hours before students arrived for Eversource’s wildlife detection and protection training program. Two of the turtles were in a ...

In a unique blend of conservation and grid maintenance, electric utility professionals gathered this week in Agawam, Massachusetts, to participate in an annual training focused on protecting ...

Rockalina was an adult eastern box turtle living in the wild when she was taken into a New York home in 1977. When a reptile rehabilitation center... After nearly 50 years cooped up inside, Rockalina ...