Rockalina the eastern box turtle had never ventured outdoors since 1977 — now she’s healing and getting to feel grass beneath ...

A wild eastern box turtle who was kept as a pet for decades has been rehabilitated by a rescue in New Jersey and got her ...

Eastern box turtles have a vibrant color ... primarily because they’re one of the easiest animals to mess up if you don’t raise them properly,” Leone said. Leone wrote back immediately ...

The story of a turtle seeing sunlight for the first time after almost 50 years has left social media emotional. The wild eastern box turtle, kept inside a New Jersey home for decades, developed ...

And they sent us the photos, and my wife and I, our jaws hit the ground," he told NPR. A young boy found Rockalina, a wild ...

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.

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State lawmakers this week advanced a proposal to make the Eastern box turtle Pennsylvania’s official reptile. The House Game and Fisheries Committee on Tuesday voted without dissent to send the ...

KC restaurants banding together for Graham Hoffman Scholarship Fund Common turtles spotted on roads can include three-toed box turtles, ornate box turtles, red-eared sliders, painted turtles ...

Vehicles are one of the leading threats box turtles face in Missouri. The Conservation Department says thousands of box turtles are killed each year by vehicles. If you're helping a turtle make it ...