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Wildlife rehab staff at Chattahoochee Nature Center are treating a hawk struck by a car and a turtle that was attacked.
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 ...
The most recently designated state symbol is Pennsylvania’s Official state amphibian. No, it’s not a frog or toad, it’s a ...
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 ...
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 ...
I have a special interest in snapping turtles because I grew up within an easy commute of Philadelphia and went to college ...
A pregnant turtle needs your help to find her way home. An Eastern box turtle, estimated to be about 10 years old, was left ...
Never take a wild turtle home with you. Turtle species native to Delaware are prohibited from being owned as pets, according ...
As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s ...
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.
Box turtles also have a hinged plastron (bottom shell) that allows them to close up shop in the front and rear, creating a “box” that protects their entire body from predators. Formerly, the eastern ...
Box turtles generally live for 25 to 35 years, but they have been known to survive for more than 100 years.” Eastern box turtles can be identified by the hinged sections of their shells.