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More than 200 box turtles have now been recovered following an illegal dumping incident in Cranford, as officials wind down the collection effort. The Township of Cranford said 208 box turtles had ...

Eastern box turtles take their nest building responsibilities seriously. A female may wander for hours, sometimes days, scouting for a spot with the right thermal conditions to make a nest. Once she ...

To figure out why Eastern box turtle numbers are dropping across Virginia, Smithsonian researchers are turning to some surprisingly low-tech tricks. Mike Bock Earlier this summer, Smithsonian ...

Massachusetts beaches have become a ‘hotspot for mass stranding of sea turtles’, so an annual rescue effort has grown Sea turtle #471 gasped audibly, as veterinarian Kathy Tuxbury palpated the ...

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