Box turtles moving across state | Want to take one home with you? Know the rules. April 18, 2020 at 3:07 a.m. | Updated April 18, 2020 at 3:09 a.m.

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

The box turtle has a high-domed upper shell called the carapace. It is often highly ornamented with a different pattern, often in a dull yellow color. The bottom shell, called the plastron, is ...

The common box turtle is found just about anywhere in the continental United States east of Colorado. For all their ubiquity, it's unclear how many there are or how they're faring in the face of ...

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

The Florida box turtle as the same narrow, high domed shell as most species of box turtles. But the Florida version has a distinct pattern of bright yellow stripes that make it easy to identify.

Box turtles are so long-lived, short studies just won't cut it. SOMERS: It's a life span similar to a human life span. Humans can live to be a 100-year-old easily, if conditions are right.

The ornate box turtle, about 5 inches long and streaked with yellow beams, was listed in 2009 as threatened in Illinois, a state where the prairie habitat the turtles depend upon is almost ...

Feitsui Reservoir (翡翠水庫) in New Taipei City has the largest and most stable population of yellow-margined box turtles in Asia, administrators said on Monday. About 1,296 hectares of the reservoir are ...