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

An Eastern box turtle in his shell found along the trail at the Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve in Louisville, Kentucky ...

Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering designating the eastern box turtle as the state reptile. The bill's inspiration came from a first-grade class that noticed Pennsylvania lacked a state reptile.

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 ...

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

State lawmakers this week advanced a proposal to make the Eastern box turtle Pennsylvania’s official reptile. The House Game ...

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

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 ...

The eastern box turtle is collected in enormous numbers for the illegal wildlife trade. Only a portion of this trade is detected, and when it is, wildlife agencies must decide what to do with those ...

These include the eastern box turtles, the invasive red-eared turtles and the Asian leaf turtles, said 1StopBorneo conservationist Shavez Cheema. He said the requirements for box turtles that are ...