The eastern box turtle represents holding on and surviving, sticking its neck out, which led to its status as a state symbol ...

Eastern box turtles thrive at this Benton Harbor nature center with its diverse habitats. Researchers hope to find out why.

The box turtle's domed carapace is hinged at either end allowing it to box in its head and tail safe from marauding claws. ... (Box turtles have been classified as a "species of special concern.") ...

Arkansas is home to 16 species of turtle, but only two are land dwellers - the three-toed box turtle and the ornate box turtle. Box turtles are the only turtles in North America with a flexible ...

The eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina) is one of many wonderful turtle species native to Georgia. John Jensen, herpetologist with Georgia Department of Natural Resources, told me more about ...

Species like the ornate box turtle really suffer from that. They no longer have habitat and they need space to move around.” The goal for scientists at Nachusa Grasslands is to restore the tall ...

Of Ohio’s 11 turtle species, the box turtle is the only one that lives an exclusively terrestrial lifestyle. Resembling tiny tortoises, box turtles are most likely to be found plodding through ...

The Sedgwick County Zoo – home to 3,000 individual animals of nearly 400 species — announced the birth of a McCord's box turtle Friday.

How the common box turtle became one of the most heavily trafficked animals in US, and how the Tennessee Aquarium is trying to fight it. May 1, 2020 at 1:00 a.m. | Updated May 1, 2020 at 3:03 a.m.

The ornate box turtle is the subject of fieldwork this week in western Lee County, part of the 15th year of a box turtle health survey — the largest and longest in North America, researchers say.

It turns out ornate box turtles — a threatened species in Iowa — can be bold, too, according to recent research from Coe College and other collaborators. The first-of-its-kind study revealed ...

Never take a wild turtle home with you. Turtle species native to Delaware are prohibited from being owned as pets, according ...