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 ...

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 ...

Each Eastern box turtle's shell has unique yellow or orange markings, like fingerprints, helping researchers identify individuals. Eastern box turtles are declining due to slow reproduction, habitat ...

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 ...

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 ...