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

The Eastern Box Turtle pictured in southern Minnesota under controlled conditions. Show Caption. 1 of 2. Stan Tekiela. Expand. By Stan Tekiela. UPDATED: February 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM CST.

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 ...

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 ...

It was mid-summer last year and several of us were spending our time social distancing by hanging and checking trail cams in the Forest Hill area of Union County. While ...

FILE - A male Eastern Box Turtle moves across a path at Wildwood Lake Sanctuary in Harrisburg, Pa., May 2, 2009. Carolyn Kaster / AP. Rockalina is an eastern box turtle.

Rockalina the eastern box turtle had never ventured outdoors since 1977 — now she’s healing and getting to feel grass beneath her claws. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

AGAWAM — Mobie sniffed out three eastern box turtles Wednesday morning, hours before students arrived for Eversource’s wildlife detection and protection training program. Two of the turtles ...

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.