LENNOX — Two Texas siblings are counting their blessings after a family from South Dakota found their runaway turtle. Scoot is a 12-year-old desert box turtle belonging to Charis Knobloch, 9, and ...

MIDLAND, Texas — The transition from the winter season to the spring season brings out the desert box turtle, also known as the ornate box turtle. Ornate box turtle sightings become more common during ...

DEAR JOAN: We have two female desert tortoises and a box turtle that we have had for more than 50 years. It is getting to be a chore to take care of them properly as we age. Do you know of a zoo or ...

Throughout my life, I have collected pets. I’ve had cats and dogs and hamsters and birds. I’ve had lizards and sea monkeys and goldfish and rabbits. Our daughter has collected her share of pets, too, ...

At the extreme southwestern part of its range in southeastern Arizona, annual surface activity of the Desert Box Turtle (Terrapene ornata luteola) is limited primarily to the three-month summer ...

Visitors can explore waves of white sand in the world's largest gypsum dune field. The stark landscape is home to a surprising number of creatures, including the prairie rattlesnake and desert box ...