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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Just as Conservation Commission Coordinator Sabrina Pooler bent over to pick up a dead box turtle she found while searching for vernal pools with a U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologist, he asked her ...

Why did the turtle cross the road? Because when it evolved 300 million years ago, roads weren't a threat. So the turtle's armored shell kept out most predators. Its swimming ...

Turtles’ shells contain a chemical record of the environment—including highly enriched ... The growth pattern on each turtle’s shell depends on its species. Box turtles, ... science to design.

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 ...