Turtles live all over the world, from the oceans to the desert. Today, let's learn the difference between sea turtles and ...

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

These land lovers with hinged shells roam around forests and fields and feast on insects, berries, and fungi. They are known ...

A box turtle with scars from a past injury was spotted crossing a road, highlighting the dangers turtles face during their ...

(The familiar box turtle also hibernates, but on land.) An Australian species, the Fitzroy River turtle, hardly ever surfaces, but obtains oxygen from water pumped through its cloaca, or posterior ...

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. She remained on a slick ...

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 ...

Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering designating the eastern box turtle as the state reptile. The bill's inspiration came from a first-grade class that noticed Pennsylvania lacked a state reptile.