Imagine that your body is 10 times the size of your limbs. Each of your four legs are short, thick, round and tipped with long narrow claws. Your body is also your home that you carry around with y… ...

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 ...

But though they are not listed by the federal government as an endangered species, Eastern box turtles are far less common now. Some conservationists say they have become rare.

Let’s celebrate by learning about our three most common turtle species here in Western North Carolina. First is the eastern box turtle. These small turtles live on land and are some of the most ...

I stopped to help an old friend across the road the other morning. It was a box turtle, looking ever so much like a small, overturned bowl in the middle of the blacktop road near Kreidersville, whe… ...

The eastern box turtle is a subspecies of the common box turtle and can be found in forested regions of the eastern U.S., though there are isolated populations in the Midwest.

Eastern box turtle at John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. The zoo is raising the turtles so they can be released into the wild when they're older to help Michigan's turtle ...

“The spotted turtle, the Eastern box turtle, the Blanding’s turtle or the wood turtle. If those happen to nest in your yard, we would really, really like to know that,” she said.