The most recently designated state symbol is Pennsylvania’s Official state amphibian. No, it’s not a frog or toad, it’s a ...

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

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.

The box turtle and the painted turtle are both turtles from the family Emydidae. Both painted turtles and box turtles are ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University want residents in the Triangle area to be cautious of turtles crossing the ...

It’s not every Tuesday you get to meet a turtle named after a candy, but that’s exactly what happened on this week’s ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. As part of its ongoing efforts to provide safe, reliable electric service, Eversource hosted its annual turtle protection program – Turtle-Palooza! – to ...

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 ...

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 ...

A young boy found Rockalina, a wild eastern box turtle, while playing near his New York home in 1977. His family took her in and for nearly 50 years, she stayed there.

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.