ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — After digging through mud on his hands and knees, Todd Fredericksen straightened up and held out his find. The small turtle hid itself in its patterned shell as Fredericksen wiped ...

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 ...

Monitoring the populations of one of nature's slower creatures could become faster, thanks to the University of Georgia. UGA researchers have developed an easier, more cost-effective way to learn more ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The Louisville Nature Center is celebrating the return of one of its missing turtles. Chocolate, a male box turtle, was taken last weekend from his enclosure, along with ...

Louisville Nature Center officials want two male box turtles to be returned after they were removed from their outdoor enclosure over the weekend. When Nature Center staff returned to Illinois Avenue ...

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 its ...

Early Friday morning, about a dozen volunteers scattered across a wooded patch of land on Tybee, looking for box turtles. The 7 acres of maritime forest are slated to become Solomon Park, a passive ...

Confiscated live animals are temporarily held in what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service calls their “live room” at an office building near Los Angeles International Airport, while authorities try to ...