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 and ...
The Cincinnati Zoo and other groups are releasing previousy rescued turtles affixed with monitors in a statewide research ...
Last year Anna Thonis, a postdoctoral researcher at New York University, launched a study of Long Island’s Eastern box turtles, a "species of special concern" in New York — not officially threatened ...
Indian River Park is their natural habitat. They creep and crawl through the park — mostly unobserved — 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They move silently through their surroundings. Their natural ...
11-year-old girl captures the incredible moment a wild box turtle lays eggs in her backyard in Alabama.
The Center for Wildlife stopped by to teach us all about Lily and Clifford the box turtles. The center says they were taken out of the wild and kept in captivity. Unfortunately, t ...
FRANKLIN GROVE, Ill. -- Some dogs find joy in bones and treats. For John Rucker’s seven Boykin spaniels, they are excited about praise after finding ornate box turtles. “I'm the only person in the ...
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.
Dog handler John Rucker collects an ornate box turtle that one of his six Boykin spaniels located and brought to him May 6, 2021, at the Nachusa Grasslands in Lee County. John Rucker hunts for ornate ...
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 ...
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 ...
Researchers and conservation staff are working to preserve rare sand prairie habitats at this metro-east site.