Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In spring, box turtles emerge from their underground winter dens. Drivers across the Midwest and Great Plains may spot them on the ...

An angler accidentally hooked an endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, a rare nesting animal in South Carolina, at Myrtle Beach State Park’s fishing pier last week. Only nine Kemp’s ridley nests have ...

Ornate box turtles and their kin face steep challenges in today’s world, but people can help out by raising the deck height on their mowers, allowing turtles to cross the road and not taking them home ...