Rockalina the eastern box turtle had never ventured outdoors since 1977 — now she’s healing and getting to feel grass beneath ...

A young boy found Rockalina, a wild eastern box turtle, while playing near his New York home in 1977. His family took her in and for nearly 50 years, she stayed there. She remained on a slick ...

Dr. Anna Thonis, an ecologist and herpetologist at Stony Brook University, is beginning a new research project on the eastern box turtle at the end of May. The Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt are ...

SATURDAY, 46 DEGREES. COULD EVEN SEE A FEW SNOWFLAKES WITH RAIN SHOWERS IN THE Stambaugh said, "The eastern box turtle can be found across the Commonwealth in rural, suburban, and even urban ...

To the team’s surprise — and excitement — the pets turned out to be Vietnamese pond turtles, a critically endangered species. A pet Vietnamese pond turtle, or Mauremys annamensis ...

PENNSYLVANIA (WTAJ) — The General Assembly of the Commonwealth has designated the eastern box turtle as the official state reptile. The eastern box turtle, also known as Terrapene Carolina ...

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 ...