The box turtle and the painted turtle are both turtles from the family Emydidae. Both painted turtles and box turtles are popular pets across the world. They have a similar appearance, with colorful ...

This stunning sea turtle isn’t albino—it's leucistic. Here's what makes this pale yellow turtle so rare and how it beat the ...

The Florida box turtle as the same narrow, high domed shell as most species of box turtles. But the Florida version has a distinct pattern of bright yellow stripes that make it easy to identify ...

The turtles have a domed shell, usually smattered with yellow patches, can have bright red eyes and while they can run, they usually don't flee from humans.

Oklahoma has two kinds of box turtles, the ornate box turtle and the three-toed box turtle. We have both in the Skiatook area.

A wild eastern box turtle who was kept as a pet for decades has been rehabilitated by a rescue in New Jersey and got her first chance to see the sun in decades this month.

Never take a wild turtle home with you. Turtle species native to Delaware are prohibited from being owned as pets, according ...

The box turtle has a high-domed upper shell called the carapace. It is often highly ornamented with a different pattern, often in a dull yellow color.

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... After nearly 50 years cooped up inside ...

An ambitious long-term study of box turtles seeks to study the population across North Carolina to determine the health of the species over a hundred years.

Eastern box turtles look eye catching, with their red or brown eyes and yellow spots or sometimes orange stripes and high-domed, colorful shells.

Box turtles have high home territory fidelity and often stay in the same home range their entire lives. And speaking of their entire lives, these turtles can live upwards of 30 years.