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Lonely no more, Rockalina the box turtle welcomes a new friend

Rockalina has become a viral sensation since being rescued in early 2025. The Eastern box turtle was in failing health, having lived in an indoor, unnatural environment for decades. Post-rescue, ...
NPR

For 50 years, Rockalina the turtle lived on a kitchen floor. Now she has a new friend

The story of Rockalina the turtle — who was rescued after nearly a half-century of neglect — now has a new character. Enter an Oreo-sized baby turtle, who will be Rockalina's new friend and who ...
kjrh.com

Dogs helping scientists assess health of threatened ornate box turtles

FRANKLIN, Ill. — For nearly 50 years, the ornate box turtle has been endangered or threatened. Highly sought after as pets, they're even poached and traded on the black market. Conservationists are ...
People

Turtle Kept in Darkness on a Diet of Cat Food, Feels the Sun for the First Time in 50 Years

An eastern box turtle kept as a pet has been rehabilitated by a rescue in New Jersey and got her first chance to see the sun in decades this month Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at ...
Knoxville News Sentinel

The eastern box turtle’s path to state symbol status | Word from the Smokies

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 ...
Post and Courier

Ambassador turtle from Greenville’s Conestee Nature Preserve is missing, feared stolen or released

GREENVILLE — Conestee Nature Preserve is pleading for help as it searches for a missing animal ambassador, a juvenile box turtle named Michelle. About the size of a silver dollar, Michelle disappeared ...