After nearly 50 years living on a kitchen floor in New Jersey and eating a diet of mainly cat food, Rockalina the turtle was in rough shape. But after 11 months of rehabilitation, she's thriving — and ...

Huntman says turtles aren’t exactly fun. “With the turtle, you go on a hike, it'd have to either be a very short hike or a very slow hike,” he says. Doug Huntman nestled his box turtle back into her ...

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 ...

The box turtle and the painted turtle are both turtles from the family Emydidae. Both painted turtles and box turtles are popular pets across the world. They have a similar appearance, with colorful ...

A 54-year-old man pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges after wildlife inspectors at a Torrance mail facility intercepted packages containing protected eastern box turtles addressed to one of the ...