I have a special interest in snapping turtles because I grew up within an easy commute of Philadelphia and went to college there. A culinary specialty of the City of Brotherly Love is snapper soup.

Although the eastern box turtle population has been in decline for a couple decades, it remains one of the species most likely to be spotted on roads, in backyards and elsewhere.

About 10 years ago a long-time Lakevillian reported to the Planning Board that he had once spotted 30 box turtles on the acreage of a proposed development. A few months later the bulldozers began.

Box turtles bear a casual resemblance to our state reptile, the much larger gopher tortoise, and the diminutive spotted turtle, a species with a much flatter shell attractively marked with ...

A box turtle with scars from a past injury was spotted crossing a road, highlighting the dangers turtles face during their seasonal migrations across Missouri. The three-toed box turtle is the ...

Female spotted turtles lay 1-3 clutches of, on average, 3-5 eggs, annually (from April-July). Eggs hatch after an incubation period of 60-80 days.

AMHERST — At 4-8 inches long, box turtles aren’t easy to spot, yet Julie Miller and her son, August, found two such turtles earlier this month during hikes in the Plum Brook Conservation Area.

This wrinkled ol' pal, found across much of the U. S., may be in decline. A huge study in North Carolina plans to track box turtles for 100 years, to learn how to best protect them.