The box turtle and the painted turtle are both turtles from the family Emydidae. Both painted turtles and box turtles are ...

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.

This wrinkled ol' pal, found across much of the U. S., may be in decline. A huge study in North Carolina plans to track box turtles for 100 years, to learn how to best protect them.

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 ...

This hinged area allows the turtle to withdraw into the shell and close up tight like a box, hence the common name of these animals. This is different from the aquatic turtles that can withdraw ...

This wrinkled ol' pal, found across much of the U. S., may be in decline. A huge study in North Carolina plans to track box turtles for 100 years, to learn how to best protect them.

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 ...

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 ...

Wild Kratts. Boxed In. Clip: Season 4 Episode 18 | 2m 40s Video has Closed Captions | CC "Miniaturized" Wild Kratts encounter a box turtle and soon after, a hungry coyote. "Miniaturized" Wild ...

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.

In cartoons, when a turtle is spooked, it retreats into and closes up its shell. While used for comic effect, this imagery is based in fact — although not all turtles are capable of this ...

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 ...