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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Turtle rescue on Long Island removes extraordinary beak from pet box turtle 02:18. JAMESPORT, N.Y.-- A 70-year-old pet turtle is slowly coming out of its shell and learning how to walk and eat ...

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 ...