I want to look at the land-based turtle, the Eastern Box Turtle. The box turtle has a high-domed upper shell called the carapace. It is often highly ornamented with a different pattern ...

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.

They are known as box turtles because they can almost completely shut themselves up inside their shells. They live up and down the Eastern seaboard from Maine to Florida, and and as far west as Texas.

The Eastern box turtle, affectionately called the "Lego Turtle" by the Maryland Zoo, was brought in during July 2018 with "multiple fractures on his plastron, the bottom part of his shell," Dr ...

Box turtles are so-called because unlike most turtles, they can completely close up their shell, much like a box ... There is a wonderful British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) video called Eastern ...

According to the Maryland Zoo, an injured wild Eastern box turtle was recently discovered at nearby Druid Hill Park by a zoo employee. Worried that the half-shell wouldn’t make it on his own ...

Eastern box turtles look eye catching, with their red or brown eyes and yellow spots or sometimes orange stripes and high-domed, colorful shells. But they can be hard to spot once burrowed into ...

The eastern box turtle was probably about 20 years old, based on shell size at the time, when it was found on the farm in 1967 by a brother and sister, reports PennLive. That makes it about 72 ...