The homeowner was moved to build a cage for the visiting Eastern box turtle's nest, which made way for hatchlings.

Imagine that your body is 10 times the size of your limbs. Each of your four legs are short, thick, round and tipped with long narrow claws. Your body is also your home that you carry around with you ...

This year has been a great one for spotting Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina) in the Andorra Natural Area, the northern end of Wissahickon Park. We had three unique animals sighted: one ...

Two eastern box turtles were born as conjoined twins, a rare occurrence among the reptile species. The hatchlings were later ...

Discover the story of rare eastern box turtle hatchlings — including twins — and how their survival offers new hope for a threatened species in Virginia.

The Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center was a part of an exceptionally uncommon box turtle hatch that has gone viral. The ...

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 ...

TORRANCE, Calif. — In the back of an office building, in a small room that smells like rotting strawberries, a criminal investigator watches his evidence crawl around on wood chips in five open ...

On a warm, sunny morning in late August, a few dozen people assemble beside a barn in northern New Jersey. It’s a festive gathering because today is a homecoming. "Getting animals back in the wild is ...