A large loggerhead sea turtle was found stranded on a Texas beach over the weekend, a once rare sight that is becoming increasingly common.

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.

An eastern box turtle thought to be about 72 years old surfaced again last week on the same Dauphin County farm where a brother and sister first encountered it in 1967, more than a half-century ago.

TAKE A LOOK. PITTSBURGH POLICE POSTED THESE PICTURES OF A LARGE TURTLE FOUND IN LAWRENCEVILLE. WHAT IS GOING ON? PASSERBYS SPOTTED HIM NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF BUTLER AND 47-TH STREETS.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has charged two suspects for poaching thousands of native turtles in Florida in what agency says is the largest seizure of turtles in recent ...

Images: 1) Female Vietnamese box turtle (Biological Conservation). 2) A map of southeast Asia and the box turtles' ranges (Biological Conservation). See Also: Pictured: One Sea Turtle's Worth of ...

Box turtles like those shared in the video are known for their dome-shaped yellow and orange shells and are native to North America, where they are considered an indicator, or keystone, species.

Wild Georgia columnist Charles Seabrook explains why a retired biologist sees armadillos, which are rapidly spreading, as a threat to the Eastern box turtle.

Cool said he had been in the reptile trade for more than 20 years, but got started selling large amounts of eastern box turtles after he posted a picture of one on a turtle group’s Facebook page ...

Amos Rehabilitation Keep rehabilitators said they had to euthanize a Leatherback Sea Turtle after they discovered it with large propeller wounds.

A crew helped free the animal, cutting a line attached with buoys that entangled the loggerhead sea turtle.

Spotted turtles and box turtles fetch up to $1,000 each on the black market in China, where they are in high demand because their red and gold markings make them symbols of good fortune and status ...