Crushing a turtle, making it roadkill, can be avoided. Here's how

Turtles in SW Florida often end up on highways and other roads. Awareness of their presence is important as is knowing how to ...

Super rare sea turtle returns to NYC waters after injury in shell yeah moment

It was a shell yeah moment. A very nervous endangered turtle made its grand return to the Coney Island sea as local kids cheered it on — months after the reptile nearly froze to death. Pancake — a ...

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 ...
The Ada NewsOpinion

Randy's Natural World: The three-toed box turtle

The three-toed box turtle (Terrapene triunguis) is one of a handful of box turtle species found in North America, north of ...

First-ever leatherback turtle nesting in Va. discovered in Virginia Beach

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A recent discovery of a leatherback turtle nesting on a beach at Naval Air Station Oceana Dam ...

Missing pet or abandoned animal? Tortoise found in north Fresno neighborhood

"Once he sees me noticing him, he starts walking away. So now I'm thinking, ‘OK, it's alive. What are we supposed to do now?' ...
The Farmville Herald

Box turtle population declines

The Virginia Herpetological Society is encouraging residents to report woodland box turtle sightings to help better understand and conserve ...