After 50 years in darkness, New Jersey turtle meets another turtle, and shares a strawberry

Rockalina, an eastern box turtle that spent nearly 50 years in a dark basement living mostly on cat food, has met another ...

Turtle Who Spent Decades Eating Cat Food Gets a New Best Friend After Remarkable Recovery (Exclusive)

Her rescuers say the once-shut-down turtle is now showing natural behaviors they feared she had lost forever ...

New turtle crossing signs go up in key Sturgeon City hotspots to protect box turtles

JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County — Drivers near Sturgeon City may notice new turtle crossing signs aimed at protecting local ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Are there more box turtles in Greater Cincinnati this summer? Here's what we know

Now that it's officially summer in Greater Cincinnati, you may notice a familiar hard-shell creature: the box turtle. Eastern box turtles are most commonly found in the woodlands throughout Ohio and ...
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Critically Endangered Bourret’s Box Turtles Hatch at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo

Keepers at the National Zoo’s Reptile Discovery Center are celebrating a conservation success five years in the making: a pair of Bourret’s box turtle hatchlings. They are the first of their species ...
Savannah Morning News

Box turtles will be hatching soon in Savannah, rest of Georgia

The eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina) is one of many wonderful turtle species native to Georgia. John Jensen, herpetologist with Georgia Department of Natural Resources, told me more about box ...