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 ...

Wan Yee Ng, 41, was arrested on the morning of June 28 at an Airbnb in Canaan as she was about to get into an inflatable ...

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 ...

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 70-year-old pet turtle is slowly coming out of his shell and learning how to walk and eat, thanks to a Bronx man who ...

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

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 China pleaded guilty on Friday to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak. Wan Yee Ng, 41, was arrested on the ...