Native to North America, the common box turtle has a high-domed brown shell with yellow or orange patterns. It has a small head with a hooked upper jaw and is known for its interesting personality.

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s ...

In fact, your spine is fused to the hard domed-shaped shell structure that […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 61°F. Wednesday, June 18th 2025 Today's Paper. Home Page.

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 ...

How smushed shells could help to resolve paleontological mysteries. By Asher Elbein You never know where a bit of unusual scientific research is going to lead. Consider a 2012 study about turtle ...

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 ...

A Philippine box turtle with a damaged shell was handed over to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Ilocos Norte. The turtle was handed over by John Alconcher, a resident, of ...

Rockalina was an adult eastern box turtle living in the wild when she was taken into a New York home in 1977. When a reptile rehabilitation center got a hold of her this February, they worried for ...

Turtles have a lower shell, called a plastron, and an upper shell, or carapace. In hard-shelled turtle species, the shells are made up of bony plates that are covered with scale-like “scutes.” The ...