Ornate box turtles and their kin face steep challenges in today’s world, but people can help out by raising the deck height ...

Are box turtles in worse shape than herpetologists thought? University of Toledo researchers raise the question in new research published in the journal Ecology and Evolution. Analyzing years of field ...

This box turtle made it safely across the road this time. But the sunken area on top of its back, as well as the white scars on its back, tell of a past near tragedy. We can only guess how the injury ...

The story of this spring has been the weather, specifically, the rain that just keeps falling. Add in the new arrival of the hazy smoke blowing south from Canadian wildfires and you’ve got a soggy, ...

They may be small now, but with help from two-legged friends at John Ball Zoo and Calvin University, baby spotted turtles are growing stronger for life in the wild. The two institutions have partnered ...

Spotted turtles housed at the Stark Parks Wildlife Conservation Center are sick with an emerging disease. A research team led by Wild4Ever founder Dr. Gary Riggs hopes to find a cure. The ultimate ...

Over the years Pennsylvania has appointed an assemblage of flora and fauna to be official representatives of the commonwealth. To that end, a congregation of various critters have risen to that lofty ...

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s collection of nature books and daydream about the creatures within. One species ...