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

The Rolling Hills Zoo has taken in 83 ornate box turtles confiscated from the illegal global wildlife trade.

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The state reptile of Kansas is at risk of being trafficked, but investigators are working to save them ...

A wildlife photographer came to the rescue after spotting a turtle struggling on its back near Lake Apopka, Florida. Jim Uhing was exploring the area when he noticed the box turtle lying upside down ...

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 ...

Stop, Burt!” I braked. We were driving home one summer afternoon in 2023 when Becky spotted a box turtle crossing our ...

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 upland ...

An ambitious long-term study of box turtles seeks to study the population across North Carolina to determine the health of the species over a hundred years. With a story about an animal that inspires ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dog handler John Rucker collects an ornate box turtle that one of his six Boykin spaniels located and brought to him May 6, 2021, at the Nachusa Grasslands in Lee County. John Rucker hunts for ornate ...