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 ...

TORRANCE, Calif. — In the back of an office building, in a small room that smells like rotting strawberries, a criminal investigator watches his evidence crawl around on wood chips in five open ...

Slow down for a minute and meet the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s turtle-y awesome Asian box turtles! Reptile Discovery Center animal keeper, Kyle Miller, shares his experiences working with these ...

Ornate box turtles and their kin face steep challenges in today’s world, but people can help out by raising the deck height on their mowers, allowing turtles to cross the road and not taking them home ...

As prairie has decreased in Illinois to less than one-tenth of 1% of its original area, the ornate box turtle has become critically endangered in the state. The Nature Conservancy's Nachusa Grasslands ...

Ornate box turtles face threats from habitat loss, climate change and being hit by cars. Scientists urge the public not to take wild turtles home as pets or for turtle races. If helping a turtle cross ...

Unregulated trade—at 10 to 100 times legal levels—has caused Southeast Asian Box Turtles almost to vanish from parts of Indonesia where they were once common, according to a new report by the wildlife ...

Demand for wild-caught animals can carry consequences far beyond a single sale.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 160 box turtles illegally dumped near the Rahway River in Cranford last week have been recovered, township officials ...