He is small enough to creep inside a matchbox, if he ever needs more protection than his own tiny shell. And this Chinese box turtle, which hatched at Bristol Zoo three weeks ago, might be glad of the ...

One of the world's rarest species of turtle has hatched at a British zoo for the first time. The tiny seven-week-old Vietnamese box turtle is so precious that it is being kept in a climate-controlled ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Deep in the veterinary quarantine building behind the scenes at John Ball Zoo are 12 tiny eastern box turtles, doing their best to grow as big as they can. They may be about the ...