North American box turtles (Terrapene spp.) typically demonstrate localized activity patterns that are highly dependent on temperature and precipitation. In east Texas, we found no documented reports ...

Of Ohio’s 11 turtle species, the box turtle is the only one that lives an exclusively terrestrial lifestyle. Resembling tiny tortoises, box turtles are most likely to be found plodding through upland ...

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 ...

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 and animals chosen as symbols of the two states it straddles — North ...

Over the years Pennsylvania has appointed an assemblage of flora and fauna to be official representatives of the commonwealth. To that end, a congregation of various critters have risen to that lofty ...