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

Article by Molly Schafer Photos courtesy of Molly Schafer, Mat Smith, Andy Tocydlowski, Maya Walker, Jim White, Kenneth Geisert and University Archives September 10, 2024 The discovery of a ...

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

Imagine that your body is 10 times the size of your limbs. Each of your four legs are short, thick, round and tipped with long narrow claws. Your body is also your home that you carry around with you ...

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 ...

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 ...

An ornate box turtle brought to WildCare Oklahoma from Midwest City is recovering after someone painted a message on its shell, a practice wildlife experts say can cause serious harm. Officials with ...