Last month, Ohio Northern University released 13 box turtles into the wild. ROBOTs, or Repatriating Ohio’s Box Turtles initiative, was created by the Ohio Division of Wildlife to combat the ...

More than 160 box turtles illegally dumped near the Rahway River in Cranford last week have been recovered, township officials said. The total of 125 eastern box turtles and 37 three-toed box turtles ...

An illegal dumping in Cranford has turned into an unprecedented rescue effort in Mercer County.

Photos of the turtles rescued from Cranford that are now being cared for at the Mercer County Wildlife Center in Hopewell, ...

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 ...

When Ann Berry Somers was 7 years old and growing up in North Carolina, she encountered a box turtle on a path. She picked up the small reptile and looked into its eyes. Instead of retreating into its ...