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 ...

HARWICH -- Tracking turtles isn’t as easy as one might think, but Michael Musnick, a passionate amateur herpetologist, is doing his best. Holding an antenna and receiver, Musnick sets off down one of ...

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 eastern box turtle kept as a pet has been rehabilitated by a rescue in New Jersey and got her first chance to see the sun in decades this month Charlotte Phillipp is a Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE.

Now that it's officially summer in Greater Cincinnati, you may notice a familiar hard-shell creature: the box turtle. Eastern box turtles are most commonly found in the woodlands throughout Ohio and ...

On a warm morning in Virginia, a wildlife researcher walks slowly through a patchwork of forest and farmland, eyes scanning the ground for something most people would never notice. Somewhere under the ...

Karen Deville usually looks forward to rainy days — but not just because it waters her plants. Deville is delighted that when it rains, and box turtles creep out of her yard, in Baton Rouge's ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HATTERAS ISLAND, N.C. — An eastern 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 ...