A common box turtle slow-steps onto a two-lane byway, carrying the weight of its ornate shell and a bounty on its head. In recent decades, the box turtle has become one of North America's most heavily ...

An eastern box turtle likely older than 70 years of age recently reunited with a brother and sister who first encountered it in the same central Pennsylvania field in 1967, more than a half-century ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Spring's warmer temperatures not only mean you'll be moving around more outside, so will our areas turtles. Annually, the Missouri Department of Conservation urges drivers to be ...

Perhaps you have encountered the common box turtle. Like their name implies, they're fairly ubiquitous—found just about anywhere in the continental United States just about anywhere east of Colorado.

Have you ever wanted a day to celebrate our famously slow-moving reptilian friends? Well, you’re in for some good news — May 23 is World Turtle Day. Let’s celebrate by learning about our three most ...

MIDLAND, Texas — The transition from the winter season to the spring season brings out the desert box turtle, also known as the ornate box turtle. Ornate box turtle sightings become more common during ...

When Ann Berry Somers was 7 years old and growing up in North Carolina, she encountered a box turtle on a path. She picked up the small reptile and looked into its eyes. Instead of retreating into its ...

An ornate box turtle is found Thursday, May 6, 2021 at the Nachusa Grasslands in Lee County. A team of researchers and veterinary students from the University of Illinois Wildlife Epidemiology ...

There are about 300 species of turtles in the world, and 16 of them can be found in Arkansas. "That may not seem like a whole lot, but it's actually close to about 5% of the diversity in the whole ...