"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 ...

When a Maryland Zoo employee brought an injured turtle to the Druid Hill Park facility, veterinary staff crafted him a wheelchair from the building blocks of their childhood. The wild Eastern box ...

BALTIMORE — We know turtles have a reputation for being a tad slow-moving, but would that change if one has a custom Lego wheelchair attached to it? The zoo fastened a custom Lego wheelchair on an ...

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 ...

A turtle that had been injured and had a customized wheelchair built for it from Legos has been released into the wild. Dubbed “Lego turtle,” the male Eastern box turtle had been in the care of the ...

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 ...