Wild Bulletin, Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fish and Wildlife: The Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina) is a species of hinge-shelled turtle that lives on forested land in Indiana.

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 ...

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 ...

Article by Molly Schafer Photos courtesy of Molly Schafer, Mat Smith, Andy Tocydlowski, Maya Walker, Jim White, Kenneth Geisert and University Archives September 10, 2024 The discovery of a ...

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 ...

Early Friday morning, about a dozen volunteers scattered across a wooded patch of land on Tybee, looking for box turtles. The 7 acres of maritime forest are slated to become Solomon Park, a passive ...

My neighbor has a special affinity for turtles. For years, whenever he saw a box turtle on the highway or crossing a secondary road, he would not just move it off the pavement, he would put it into ...