Karen Deville usually looks forward to rainy days — but not just because it waters her plants. Deville is delighted that when it rains, and box turtles creep out of her yard, in Baton Rouge's ...

Early Friday morning, about a dozen volunteers scattered across a wooded patch of land on Tybee, looking for box turtles.

TORRANCE, Calif. — In the back of an office building, in a small room that smells like rotting strawberries, a criminal investigator watches his evidence crawl around on wood chips in five open ...

This year has been a great one for spotting Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina) in the Andorra Natural Area, the northern end of Wissahickon Park. We had three unique animals sighted: one ...

The eastern box turtle is collected in enormous numbers for the illegal wildlife trade. Only a portion of this trade is detected, and when it is, wildlife agencies must decide what to do with those ...

When Ann Berry Somers was 7 years old and growing up in North Carolina, she encountered a box turtle on a path. She picked up the small reptile and looked into its eyes. Instead of retreating into its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, so it’s no surprise that many of the plants ...