As you read this, eastern box turtles are coming out of hibernation on forest floors. Box turtles are land creatures that live among fallen leaves, ferns and moss-covered logs in deciduous woods in ...

In cartoons, when a turtle is spooked, it retreats into and closes up its shell. While used for comic effect, this imagery is based in fact – although not all turtles are capable of this protective ...

With a story about an animal that inspires a lot of love - and right now some concern - we're talking about box turtles. These are the turtles with rounded shells and yellow blotches. They roam around ...

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s collection of nature books and daydream about the creatures within. One species ...

HARWICH -- Mirroring the splash of fireworks in the sky, the orange and yellow starbursts on the carapace (top shell) of a box turtle is a defining characteristic of this rare species. They’re so well ...

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 ...

It looked as if the Eastern box turtle Rick Koval and I found had been walked on. Really. Blotches of orangish-yellow covered the turtle’s carapace, and it looked as if a raccoon stepped in paint and ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...