I don’t think you had any trouble deducing from these clues that the critter is a turtle. However, did you figure out I was referring to the Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina)? In many ...

A Chinese woman has pleaded guilty to trying to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles by kayaking from Vermont to Canada. Wan Yee Ng ...

A 54-year-old man pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges after wildlife inspectors at a Torrance mail facility intercepted packages containing protected eastern box turtles addressed to one of ...

The eastern box turtle is collected in enormous numbers for the illegal wildlife trade. Only a portion of this trade is detected, and when it is, wildlife agencies must decide what to do with those ...

Imagine that your body is 10 times the size of your limbs. Each of your four legs are short, thick, round and tipped with long narrow claws. Your body is also your home that you carry around with ...