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.

Rockalina the eastern box turtle enjoys the outdoors for the first time in nearly 50 years. Garden State Tortoise Garden State Tortoise founder Chris Leone gets plenty of requests to take in ...

In many areas, the box turtle is the only land based or terrestrial turtle species. It is not a species of tortoise, which is most likely the best-known land-based turtle-like species.

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 ...

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.

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.

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN — A pregnant turtle needs your help to find her way home. An Eastern box turtle, estimated to be about 10 years old, was left at a drop off area at Red Creek Wildlife Center in ...

So, you might be wondering why I would be writing about an Eastern Box Turtle in the middle of winter. The other day I was asked about how these turtles survive winter.

Eastern box turtles, including the widespread woodland box turtle subspecies (Terrapene carolina carolina) that occurs in the Smokies, are the picture of adaptability and endurance.