After my column about catching snapping turtles appeared in newspapers around the country, I was inundated with information, on which I was so sorely lacking. I learned how to clean turtles, in many ...

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 ...

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 ...

An ambitious long-term study of box turtles seeks to study the population across North Carolina to determine the health of the species over a hundred years. With a story about an animal that inspires ...

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 ...

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,... How do you save the beloved box turtle? A 100-year ...