As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’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, often in a ...

The most recently designated state symbol is Pennsylvania’s Official state amphibian. No, it’s not a frog or toad, it’s a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rockalina was an adult eastern box turtle living in the wild when she was taken into a New York home in 1977. When a reptile rehabilitation center got a hold of her this February, they worried for ...

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 ...

On the heels of National Turtle Day, it's time to shell-abrate the creatures that move slowly on land, but quickly into our hearts. Standing room only on a log in Mattawan's Wolf Lake Fish ...

Box turtles are so-called because unlike most turtles, they can completely close up their shell, much like a box. They have a hinged belly that can close so tightly that even an ant couldn’t get ...

Unfortunately, for everything to heal correctly, the turtle’s shell could not touch the ground, so the veterinary team worked up a solution with a friend who is a "LEGO enthusiast." ...

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