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

On a warm morning in Virginia, a wildlife researcher walks slowly through a patchwork of forest and farmland, eyes scanning the ground for something most people would never notice. Somewhere under the ...

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 ...

Box Turtle vs. Painted Turtle: Size Box turtles and painted turtles differ slightly in size, as we are about to see. Box turtles weigh between 0.5 and 2 pounds, and their average length falls between ...

Eastern box turtles are declining due to slow reproduction, habitat fragmentation, road mortality, and agricultural hazards. Researchers track turtles using radio telemetry and GPS loggers to map ...