If you want to save turtles, you have to find them first... and that’s no easy task. Eastern box turtles are masters of camouflage, which makes them hard for predators to spot and even harder for ...

Ornate box turtles and their kin face steep challenges in today’s world, but people can help out by raising the deck height on their mowers, allowing turtles to cross the road and not taking them home ...

To figure out why Eastern box turtle numbers are dropping across Virginia, Smithsonian researchers are turning to some surprisingly low-tech tricks. Mike Bock Earlier this summer, Smithsonian ...

Ornate box turtles face threats from habitat loss, climate change and being hit by cars. Scientists urge the public not to take wild turtles home as pets or for turtle races. If helping a turtle cross ...