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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An eastern box turtle thought to be about 72 years old surfaced again last week on the same Dauphin County farm where a brother and sister first encountered it in 1967, more than a half-century ago.