A new study finds high land-based and human-activity related plastic litter at four key olive ridley mass nesting beaches in ...

A turtle in your yard might be a fun surprise, but it's important to follow certain precautions to keep the animal, you, and ...

A rare pair of Eastern box turtle twins separated at the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center are continuing to grow months ...

UPDATES ON THIS STORY AS WE LEARN MORE. THE NATURE PRESERVE IS ASKING FOR HELP RIGHT NOW. AFTER A SPECIAL BABY BOX TURTLE WENT MISSING. ACCORDING TO THE PRESERVE, THEY BELIEVE SOMEONE TOOK MICHELLE ...

GREENVILLE — Conestee Nature Preserve is pleading for help as it searches for a missing animal ambassador, a juvenile box turtle named Michelle. About the size of a silver dollar, Michelle disappeared ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) – The Conestee Nature Preserve said one of their rescue box turtles was reportedly taken. Staff said one of their ambassador animals, Michelle the box turtle, was taken Friday ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Conestee Nature Preserve reports it is searching for its baby box turtle after she was taken on Friday. Preserve staff said they took the baby turtle, named Michelle, ...

TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (WTOC) - A group of biologists, neighbors and volunteers gathered on Tybee Island Friday for a box turtle rescue mission. The terrestrial creatures have a habitat on North Beach near ...

Eastern box turtles are declining due to slow reproduction, habitat fragmentation, road mortality, and agricultural hazards. Researchers track turtles using radio telemetry and GPS loggers to map ...

On a warm morning in Virginia, a wildlife researcher walks slowly through a patchwork of forest and farmland, eyes scanning the ground for something most people would never notice. Somewhere under the ...