Meet Thumb, the smallest box turtle at the Caldwell Zoo. At just a few months old, he is only barely larger than a quarter.

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 ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, so it’s no surprise that many of the plants and animals chosen as symbols of the two states it straddles — North ...

Dog handler John Rucker collects an ornate box turtle that one of his six Boykin spaniels located and brought to him Thursday, May 6, 2021 at the Nachusa Grasslands in Lee County. (Brian ...