"Sometimes conservation begins with answering a phone call." ...

Demand for wild-caught animals can carry consequences far beyond a single sale.

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 ...

A Brooklyn man stuffed hundreds of live turtles into socks and shipped them overseas as plastic toys, and he's not alone.

Share this page on Twitter Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Email Share this page on Print Early Friday morning, about a dozen volunteers scattered across a wooded patch of land on Tybee ...

FRANKLIN GROVE, Ill. -- Some dogs find joy in bones and treats. For John Rucker’s seven Boykin spaniels, they are excited about praise after finding ornate box turtles. “I'm the only person in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 100 box turtles not native to New Jersey turned up along a Cranford roadway this week. Residents scrambled to rescue ...

An ambitious long-term study of box turtles seeks to study the population across North Carolina to determine the health of the species over a hundred years. With a story about an animal that inspires ...