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 ...

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 ...

While box turtles reach sexual maturity at about 4 years, they do not reach their full adult size until about 20 years. Through its first 20 years or so, the shell of the box turtle will grow ...

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 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.

The Eastern box turtle, affectionately called the "Lego Turtle" by the Maryland Zoo, was brought in during July 2018 with "multiple fractures on his plastron, the bottom part of his shell," Dr ...

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