It’s not every Tuesday you get to meet a turtle named after a candy, but that’s exactly what happened on this week’s ...

When Ann Berry Somers was 7 years old and growing up in North Carolina, she encountered a box turtle on a path. She picked up the small reptile and looked into its eyes. Instead of retreating into ...

Box turtles and painted turtles are typically omnivorous, which means they would eat both plants and animals with the same level of enthusiasm. They have a similar diet comprising insects ...

“Box turtles have strong affinities for the small home range where they hatched and live. In these areas, they know precisely where to find food, mates and good places to lay eggs or spend the ...

TORRANCE, Calif. — In the back of an office building, in a small room that smells like rotting strawberries, a criminal investigator watches his evidence crawl around on wood chips in five open ...

AGAWAM — Mobie sniffed out three eastern box turtles Wednesday morning, hours before students arrived for Eversource’s wildlife detection and protection training program. Two of the turtles ...

The small room occupied by the 40 scurrying box turtles, a few doors down, has housed everything from rare birds to monkey-tailed skinks — “large lizards that don’t play well with each other ...