On a warm morning in Virginia, a wildlife researcher walks slowly through a patchwork of forest and farmland, eyes scanning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, so it’s no surprise that many of the plants ...

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 ...

Rockalina has become a viral sensation since being rescued in early 2025. The Eastern box turtle was in failing health, having lived in an indoor, unnatural environment for decades. Post-rescue, ...

CHARLES CITY, Va. -- The dead walk among us. Actually, they crawl. They are box turtles -- gentle, softball-size animals that can live past 100. But these land-dwelling reptiles that some Virginians ...

This year has been a great one for spotting Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina) in the Andorra Natural Area, the northern end of Wissahickon Park. We had three unique animals sighted: one ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, so it’s no surprise that many of the plants and animals chosen as symbols of the two states it straddles - North ...

Garden State Tortoise founder Chris Leone gets plenty of requests to take in turtles people can no longer care for. Rockalina's case was different. "Like we do in any rescue, we ask to see the photos ...

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 at ...