It’s not every Tuesday you get to meet a turtle named after a candy, but that’s exactly what happened on this week’s ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

It was also the year when 13-year-old Jeff Cokeley discovered an eastern box turtle in his backyard, carved his initials and the year onto its shell and then let the creature go. Flash forward 47 ...

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 ...

Since 2018, the Maryland Zoo has been looking after an injured wild Eastern box ... shell. Because of the unique placement of the fractures, we faced a difficult challenge with maintaining the ...