Turtles are fascinating creatures because they can live as long as humans, sometimes even longer. Their slow-moving ...

A resident of Hong Kong was caught while paddling across a lake from Vermont to Canada in an inflatable kayak with the ...

Tortoises and box turtles have domed-shaped shells. ©iStock.com/GoDogPhoto The key differences between a box turtle and a tortoise are their features, habitat, diet ...

A woman from China pleaded guilty on Friday to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a ...

With their protective shell, this now endangered species has survived mass extinctions and lives throughout the world – ...

The Eastern box turtle is a popular target for animal traffickers. And some smugglers will use small boats like kayaks to do ...

I straddled the sedentary reptile as I made my way through the countryside on the way home from the delta the other day. No, it wasn’t a cottonmouth or a timber rattler, for had it been, the outcome ...

One woman was moving as slow as a tortoise when she was caught red-handed trying to smuggle 29 protected turtles across a ...

A woman from Hong Kong has pleaded guilty in Vermont for trying to smuggle 29 protected turtles from the United States into ...