A wild eastern box turtle who was kept as a pet for decades has been rehabilitated by a rescue in New Jersey and got her first chance to see the sun in decades this month.

It’s not uncommon for turtles to live up to 60 years, and they have a tiny home range. A box turtle removed from its native habitat will spend the rest of its life trying to get home.

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 got a hold of her this February, they worried for ...

“All of them are turtles,” she says. The end. Okay, there’s more to the story but that part is true. “Turtle” is the umbrella term for all 200 species of the testudine group, which ...

The last known remaining female Yangtze giant softshell turtle was found dead in Vietnam last week, leaving the species on the brink of extinction. A member of a non-profit turtle protection group ...

An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly-Dally, whose front flipper was amputated after she was rescued in January suffering from predator wounds, peers toward the water as she is released ...

A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.

A.O. Scott ponders the specific gravity and unlikely grace of Kay Ryan’s “Turtle.” And we have a game to help you memorize it.