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 ...

Eastern box turtles are declining due to slow reproduction, habitat fragmentation, road mortality, and agricultural hazards. Researchers track turtles using radio telemetry and GPS loggers to map ...

This year has been a great one for spotting Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina) in the Andorra Natural Area, the northern end of Wissahickon Park. We had three unique animals sighted: one ...

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 ...

Wild Bulletin, Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fish and Wildlife: The Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina) is a species of hinge-shelled turtle that lives on forested land in Indiana.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, so it’s no surprise that many of the plants and animals chosen as symbols of the two states it straddles - North ...

My neighbor has a special affinity for turtles. For years, whenever he saw a box turtle on the highway or crossing a secondary road, he would not just move it off the pavement, he would put it into ...