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 ...

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

Thanks to a collaborative effort between the zoo and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, confiscated box turtles get a second ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 100 box turtles not native to New Jersey turned up along a Cranford roadway this week. Residents scrambled to rescue ...

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. NASHVILLE — I admit it: I’m jealous of my writing-group partners, Mary Laura Philpott ...

TORRANCE, Calif. — In the back of an office building, in a small room that smells like rotting strawberries, a criminal investigator watches his evidence crawl around on wood chips in five open ...

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 ...

FRANKLIN GROVE, Ill. -- Some dogs find joy in bones and treats. For John Rucker’s seven Boykin spaniels, they are excited about praise after finding ornate box turtles. “I'm the only person in the ...

Indian River Park is their natural habitat. They creep and crawl through the park — mostly unobserved — 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They move silently through their surroundings. Their natural ...

I found my first one of 2018 in early April — a three-toed box turtle trying to make its way across a busy rural highway. The poor reptile was having a difficult time. Frightened by the vehicles ...

More than 100 box turtles not native to New Jersey turned up along a Cranford roadway this week. Residents scrambled to rescue them, and investigators are examining whether they were dumped as part of ...