In photos, Rockalina looked different than most eastern box turtles, which are brightly colored with blacks, browns and yellows and have sharp beak-like mouths. The over 60-year-old girl instead ...

Rockalina the eastern box turtle when she was first rescued by Garden ... They can live to be over 100 years old, according to the Smithsonian National Zoo. It was a box turtle that inspired ...

The eastern box turtle had lived since 1977 inside a New ... He estimated the turtle was a fully grown adult, about 15 to 20 years old, when she was plucked from the wild in 1977 by a little ...

A 54-year-old Hong Kong man faces sentencing Friday ... mail facility intercepted packages containing protected eastern box turtles addressed to one of the defendant’s aliases in China.

Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering designating the eastern box turtle as the state reptile. The bill's inspiration came from a first-grade class that noticed Pennsylvania lacked a state reptile.

An army is on the move. It’s the turtles migrating from their winter hibernation spots to areas more conducive for breeding and egg-laying. This migration often requires turtles to traverse roadways, ...

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, Rockalina ...