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

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 ...

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

Each of the tiny Eastern box turtles used their “egg tooth” to slice through their shells, poked out their tiny legs and wiggled free. But the third egg looked different, said Kayla Short, a reptile ...

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 ...

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 ...