It’s usually by sheer coincidence that most people cross paths with woodland turtles — those that lead their slow lives on land rather than in water. In the Lehigh Valley and Poconos, it’s the box ...

It was mid-summer last year and several of us were spending our time social distancing by hanging and checking trail cams in the Forest Hill area of Union County. While checking one of our cameras for ...

Most people like turtles and don’t feel too threatened by them. Turtles don’t bite (except for snapping turtles, which are a subject for another day!), and they pretty much ignore us as they go about ...

HARWICH -- Tracking turtles isn’t as easy as one might think, but Michael Musnick, a passionate amateur herpetologist, is doing his best. Holding an antenna and receiver, Musnick sets off down one of ...

If you think you’ve been seeing a lot of turtles – box turtles, snapping turtles, wood turtles and others – on the road and maybe in your backyard in the last few weeks, you’re probably right. It’s ...

TORRANCE, Calif. — In the back of an office building, in a small room that smells like rotting strawberries, a criminal investigator watches his evidence crawl around on wood chips in five open ...

As a kid growing up on the East Coast of the United States, I grew up a huge fan of the eastern box turtle. They’re a mostly terrestrial species of that you can find in the forest, in your lawn or ...

Turtles normally found in or near water or hidden in fields and forests just now are being spotted frequently on roads across Pennsylvania. It’s egg-laying season for snapping turtles, box turtles, ...

With his brow furrowed, Tom, 70, stomps on the damp leaf litter — thump, thump, thump, thump — and then we wait. A woodpecker cackles; bluebells tremble in the breeze. Stumpy is nowhere to be found.