Residents can help turtles by safely assisting them across roads in the direction they are traveling and reporting sightings to MIHerpAtlas.org. Lovesick turtles are crossing Michigan's roads, and ...

Box turtles can surpass a century in age ... The lower shell is the plastron and includes the ribs. When driving, slow your vehicle down and avoid hitting it. Do not veer off the road.

Coahuilan box turtles spend approximately 90% of their lives in water, only emerging to bask or lay eggs. They feature a hinged plastron (lower shell) that can close completely to protect them from ...

Among Connecticut's turtle species are bog turtle, common musk turtle, common snapping turtle, eastern box turtle and ...

An eastern box turtle kept as a pet has been rehabilitated by a rescue in New Jersey and got her first chance to see the sun in decades this month Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter ...

A young boy found Rockalina, a wild eastern box turtle, while playing near his New York home in 1977. His family took her in and for nearly 50 years, she stayed there. She remained on a slick ...

But little Root the turtle does get around on his own set of ... Early on, they noticed that as Root was tootling around, he was scraping his plastron, or bottom shell, on the floor.

Rockalina was an adult eastern box turtle living in the wild when she was taken into a New York home in 1977. When a reptile rehabilitation center... After nearly 50 years cooped up inside ...

Probably the three most common types of turtles are our red-ear sliders, box turtles, and snapping turtles. But there are actually lots of other kinds of turtles in Oklahoma. We're a very eco ...

Vehicles are one of the leading threats box turtles face in Missouri. The Conservation Department says thousands of box turtles are killed each year by vehicles. If you’re helping a turtle make ...