Over the years Pennsylvania has appointed an assemblage of flora and fauna to be official representatives of the commonwealth. To that end, a congregation of various critters have risen to that lofty ...

This year has been a great one for spotting Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina) in the Andorra Natural Area, the northern end of Wissahickon Park. We had three unique animals sighted: one ...

In cartoons, when a turtle is spooked, it retreats into and closes up its shell. While used for comic effect, this imagery is based in fact — although not all turtles are capable of this protective ...

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 ...

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 ...