Karen Deville usually looks forward to rainy days — but not just because it waters her plants. Deville is delighted that when it rains, and box turtles creep out of her yard, in Baton Rouge's ...

A juvenile Red-tailed Hawk is recovering at the Chattahoochee Nature Center after being hit by a car in Marietta; it suffered a concussion and eye injury. A box turtle from Douglasville was brought in ...

Perhaps you have encountered the common box turtle. Like their name implies, they're fairly ubiquitous—found just about anywhere in the continental United States just about anywhere east of Colorado.

Bulletin: ...EXTREME COLD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM EST FRIDAY... * WHAT...Dangerously cold wind chills as low as 25 below. * WHERE...Carbon and Monroe Counties ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s a good reason for the box turtle’s name. A hinge on the bottom of its shell lets the land-dwelling turtle pull its legs, head, and tail inside and close it up tight — like a box. When I was a ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — 11 out of the 16 documented turtle species in the Volunteer State can be found in and around East Tennessee. Whether you’re curious about what turtle is the smallest, ...

As the weather gets warmer, you’ll start to see more turtles out and about crossing Oklahoma roads. Micah Holmes, the Communication Education Division Chief with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife ...