Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A New York man pleaded guilty to smuggling turtles worth approximately $1.4 million to Hong Kong, along with venomous snakes and ...

A man charged with smuggling endangered native SC turtles to China was arraigned in federal court Tuesday for international ...

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 ...

(WHTM) — A Pennsylvania lawmaker proposed a bill that would make the Eastern Box Turtle Pennsylvania’s official state reptile ...

This is not the sequel to Dr. Seuss’ “Fox in Socks.” A man from New York admitted to stuffing 850 protected turtles into socks and trying to smuggle them to Hong Kong. The value of the turtles was ...

Michelle is missing. The young box turtle the size of a silver dollar disappeared from Conestee Nature Preserve where it ...

A group of volunteers, led by Dr. Lesley Mailler and Jordan Gray, rescued five box turtles from a wooded patch of land on Tybee Island before heavy equipment was scheduled to remove the top layer of ...

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 ...