As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s ...

Video by @joelsartore / Like other species of turtle, the sex of the Florida box turtle is temperature dependent. Nests that are between 22 and 27 degrees Celsius tend to produce males, while ...

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 got a hold of her this February, they worried for ...

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.

An eastern box turtle kept as a pet has been rehabilitated by a rescue in New Jersey and got her first chance to see the sun in decades this month Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter ...

When is sea turtle nesting season in Florida? Sea turtle nesting season runs from March 1 to Nov. 15, but sometimes the sea turtles can begin to arrive earlier.

They are known as box turtles because they can almost completely shut themselves up inside their shells. They live up and down the Eastern seaboard from Maine to Florida, and and as far west as Texas.

1 in 1,000 turtle hatchlings are expected to survive after they're born. Sea turtles lay about 80 to 120 eggs. There are five Florida sea turtle species: Hawksbill, Kemp's ridley, Loggerhead ...

Florida’s Polk County deputies helped a wayward turtle that was walking along a road near a Publix return to a ... a softshell turtle, making its way out of a cardboard box toward a body of water.

Much about box turtles remains mysterious, even to Dodd. A few weeks ago, he came across a box turtle in his yard in Florida. "Now, I've lived in my house for 37 years.