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

They found 29 live eastern box turtles individually wrapped in socks to protect their shells and so they could not move, a court affidavit said. Authorities seized her phone and discovered that ...

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

Thanks to first-grade students at Juniata Elementary School in Mifflintown, a species of turtle is one step closer to ...

A Pennsylvania lawmaker proposed a bill that would make the Eastern Box Turtle Pennsylvania’s official state reptile. House Bill 401, created by Rep. Perry Stambaugh ...

Box turtles generally live for 25 to 35 years, but they have been known to survive for more than 100 years.” According to Stambaugh, the Eastern Box Turtle is becoming an at-risk species ...