The Turtle Conservation Ecology Lab has been collecting data on Eastern box turtle habits since 2022. The team started ...

To figure out why Eastern box turtle numbers are dropping across Virginia, Smithsonian researchers are turning to some ...

Smithsonian scientists are utilising cutting-edge methods to identify turtle nesting sites, revealing that numerous nests ...

A box turtle never forgets. Missourians will see many signs of a box turtle’s reliance on memory in the weeks ahead when people will observe turtle crossing roads throughout the region. These turtle ...

Ornate box turtles and their kin face steep challenges in today’s world, but people can help out by raising the deck height on their mowers, allowing turtles to cross the road and not taking them home ...

LITTLE ROCK - 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 ...

There’s a good reason for the box turtle’s name. A hinge on the bottom of its shell lets the land-dwelling turtle pull its legs, head, and tail inside and close it up tight — like a box. When I was a ...

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 box ...