A Susquehanna Valley lawmaker is proposing a bill that would make the eastern box turtle Pennsylvania's official state ...

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth has designated the eastern box turtle as the official state reptile. The eastern box ...

The House Game and Fisheries Committee advanced a bill to establish an official state reptile. Here is what reptile and why.

Turtle hospitals and aquariums across the country are caring for sea turtles that stranded on beaches during the winter season, which is now coming to a close amid an uptick in strandings along ...

The logistics: Turtle Tower’s new location is in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District, complete with dinging cable cars rumbling by on California Street and hungry, not-WFH workers ...

It was my life.” At one point, he even had to hunt a turtle – not for its meat but for its blood since he didn’t have anything else to drink. Not long after that, a hopeful sign finally arrived.

Sai Keung Tin, 54, was sentenced on Friday for his role in trafficking eastern box turtles — a protected species, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Tin, also known as Ricky Tin ...

Sai Keung Tin, 54, was sentenced on Friday for his role in trafficking eastern box turtles — a protected species, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Tin, also known as Ricky Tin, was ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Sai Keung Tin, a Chinese national also known as Ricky Tin, received a 30‑month prison sentence for smuggling protected eastern box turtles—native to New York—back ...

He told local media in a tearful interview that he survived at sea by eating cockroaches, birds and a turtle. “I didn’t want to die, for my mother. I have a two-month-old granddaughter — I clung to ...