The eastern box turtle is celebrating 30 years as the most highly honored reptile in the Great Smoky Mountains. Here's how it won that status.

Eastern box turtles thrive at this Benton Harbor nature center with its diverse habitats. Researchers hope to find out why.

Overfishing, climate change, and temporary weather events are the main reasons our seas—especially around Evia and the ...

The eastern box turtle represents holding on and surviving, sticking its neck out, which led to its status as a state symbol ...

The Wildlife Center treats injured animals and, wherever possible, returns them to the wild. When this is not possible, for ...

The box turtle’s life cycle is a blueprint for trouble. The animal can take seven to 10 years to reach sexual maturity and it produces just a handful of eggs, few of which survive predators.

Forty turtle nesting boxes — square wooden frames constructed with untreated lumber, topped with wire mesh, and marked with ...

The eastern box turtle usually reaches a maximum length of 6 inches. The carapace and plastron are basically black in color with a wide range of color patterns on the shell. As the turtle ages the ...

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

The most recently designated state symbol is Pennsylvania’s Official state amphibian. No, it’s not a frog or toad, it’s a salamander, more specifically, the eastern hellbender.

The most recently designated state symbol is Pennsylvania’s Official state amphibian. No, it’s not a frog or toad, it’s a salamander, more specifically, the eastern hellbender.