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.

The eastern box turtle is one of the most common terrestrial (land-dwelling) turtles in the southeast. In fact, it is the ...

The most recently designated state symbol is Pennsylvania’s Official state amphibian. No, it’s not a frog or toad, it’s a ...

Turtles have been around for 200 million years—outliving dinosaurs, surviving ice ages, and basically minding their own business the whole time. Tough on the outside, chill on the inside, they seem ...

DEAR JOAN: We have two female desert tortoises and a box turtle that we have had for more than 50 years. It is getting to be a chore to take care of them properly as we age.

Stoick the turtle is just happy to be alive. Named after the character in the popular kids' movie "How to Train Your Dragon," ...

You can bring your desert tortoises and box turtles in for a health check-up Sunday afternoon at the Arizona Exotic Animal Hospital in Phoenix. Valley and Tucson reptile veterinary specialists are ...

Pet box turtles are known for their amiability. And they can recognize their owners, whom they view as their meal ticket. U.S. tortoises also have a reputation for being non-biters of humans.

Box turtles will actually spend a lot of time in and out of the water. But tortoises tend to stay more on the land and stay and they do need water, though, that’s a myth.

Mitch Telson’s affection for turtles and tortoises goes back to his boyhood, when he drove across the country from Baltimore with a box turtle in his lap. His collection has grown slightly since then ...

Never take a wild turtle home with you. Turtle species native to Delaware are prohibited from being owned as pets, according to the Delaware Department of Agriculture, and red-eared sliders require a ...