Last year Anna Thonis, a postdoctoral researcher at New York University, launched a study of Long Island’s Eastern box ...

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 ...

April, the 16-month-old Labrador retriever, is becoming a pro at finding the Eastern box turtle.

An eastern box turtle likely older than 70 years of age recently reunited with a brother and sister who first encountered it in the same central Pennsylvania field in 1967, more than a half-century ...

Perhaps you have encountered the common box turtle. Like their name implies, they're fairly ubiquitous—found just about anywhere in the continental United States just about anywhere east of Colorado.

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 ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Spring's warmer temperatures not only mean you'll be moving around more outside, so will our areas turtles. Annually, the Missouri Department of Conservation urges drivers to be ...