COAL VALLEY -- The turtle is tiny, but it's part of a big mission. Niabi Zoo is raising an ornate box turtle through a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conservation program. The turtle, which hatched in ...

April, the 16-month-old Labrador retriever, is becoming a pro at finding the Eastern box turtle.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A research project that’s the joint effort of several institutions across Middle Tennessee aimed at better understanding how Eastern Box Turtles navigate the Central Basin ...

Researchers used dogs to locate and track Eastern box turtles at Sarett Nature Center in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The dogs helped researchers capture a record number of turtles, aiming to understand ...

On a warm morning in Virginia, a wildlife researcher walks slowly through a patchwork of forest and farmland, eyes scanning the ground for something most people would never notice. Somewhere under the ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, so it’s no surprise that many of the plants and animals chosen as symbols of the two states it straddles - North ...

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 ...

Two loggerheads have become the first turtles to be tagged as part of a new tracking programme by the Department of ...