"It was a joy for our veterinary team to watch him return to his native habitat today," Dr. Ellen Bronson said The Lego turtle is headed home! Since 2018, the Maryland Zoo has been looking after an ...

An eastern box turtle is on the mend and on the move again thanks to the creative helping hand of a student at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatoon. Garrett Fraess was doing a ...

A Gulf Coast box turtle lost its back legs after being hit by a car. The turtle was taken in by a foster family and can’t be released to the wild. Children from the First Lego League in Desoto County ...

Baltimore, Md. -- An injured turtle is now rolling its way to recovery thanks to a wheelchair made of Lego bricks. A "customized Lego wheelchair" was designed for a wounded wild Eastern box turtle who ...

Famous LEGO wild Eastern box turtle is back in its native habitat in Baltimore.According to Maryland Zoo officials, the turtle has been out of the LEGO wheelchair for a year and he's been able to move ...

SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — A Gulf Coast box turtle that lost its back legs after being hit by a car has some new wheels to get around thanks to some Mississippi kids. The turtle, named Lt. Dan, was taken in ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. A wild ...

It was one shell of a recovery. An injured Eastern box turtle, recuperating at the Maryland Zoo thanks to lots of specialty care and a Lego-built wheelchair, was released into the wild on Wednesday ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) --The Maryland Zoo released a rescued Eastern box turtle Wednesday that rose to fame with his LEGO wheelchair. The turtle had been in the zoo's care for almost two years. In 2018, a ...

BALTIMORE -- A wild turtle with a broken shell is rolling around on a wheelchair made of Legos while he's on the mend at the Maryland Zoo. News outlets report that veterinarians had performed surgery ...

The wild turtle was found in a local park with a broken shell by a Maryland Zoo employee Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously ...