Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A plastic wading pool serves as an experimental enclosure to test personality traits of box turtles. [Photo courtesy Benjamin Reed ...

Arkansas is home to 16 turtle species. Only two, the three-toed box turtle and the ornate box turtle, are land dwellers. Box turtles are the only turtles in North America with a flexible hinge on ...

The eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina) is one of many wonderful turtle species native to Georgia. John Jensen, herpetologist with Georgia Department of Natural Resources, told me more about box ...

Box turtles are the most common terrestrial turtle in the eastern United States. They're the only “land” turtle found in New Jersey, meaning they do not spend much of their time in water, like other ...

A box turtle never forgets. Missourians will see many signs of a box turtle’s reliance on memory in the weeks ahead when people will observe turtle crossing roads throughout the region. These turtle ...

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 ...

Keepers at the National Zoo’s Reptile Discovery Center are celebrating a conservation success five years in the making: a pair of Bourret’s box turtle hatchlings. They are the first of their species ...

In a poll to determine which of the world’s turtles would take home the people’s choice award, box turtles would win in a landslide. Sea turtles captivate observers around the globe, but few people ...