Hinged-shell turtles, however, particularly eastern box turtles, are well protected. Flexing its hinge joint, a box turtle can completely close its plastron against its high-domed, yellow ...

A Box Turtle’s range is probably several acres in size. Females will wander farther in search of a nesting site. Turtles go into a torpid state called “brumation” during winter.

Box turtles also have a hinged plastron (bottom shell) that allows them to close up shop in the front and rear, creating a “box” that protects their entire body from predators. Formerly, the eastern ...

Some of the box turtles pull themselves up and crane their little necks over the sides. Each one has a small radio transmitter epoxied to its shell to track its movements.

Cape May, Naturally is a twice-monthly column about nature written by a rotating cast of experts at the New Jersey Audubon. I ...

The eastern box turtle represents holding on and surviving, sticking its neck out, which led to its status as a state symbol for NC and Tennessee.

Doug Huntman got his turtle when he was 12. “Obviously I have a lot of gray hair on my face now,” he says. “I'm 55, so that ...

When authorities find wildlife that are being illegally trafficked, at ports or airports, the animals are often in terrible shape. Sick, starved, distressed. A pilot project in Southern California ...

“A box lunch that went wrong,” someone noted. “The turtle was neither teenage nor mutant but it turns out he was a ninja,” one person said. “Heroes in a half shell,” another joked.