A Gulf Coast box turtle named Moses, missing both of its back legs, is getting a second chance at mobility thanks to a caring ...

Are box turtles in worse shape than herpetologists thought? University of Toledo researchers raise the question in new ...

Aquarist makes an updated version of his turtle wheelchair after suggestions from Reddit and Instagram.

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 ...

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 at ...

Indian River Park is their natural habitat. They creep and crawl through the park — mostly unobserved — 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They move silently through their surroundings. Their natural ...

Karen Deville usually looks forward to rainy days — but not just because it waters her plants. Deville is delighted that when it rains, and box turtles creep out of her yard, in Baton Rouge's ...