Below a clouded sky in the middle of Illinois prairie, a handsome brown spaniel dashed ahead through brambles and bobbed back up with a catch. There, resting in his jaws as his tail wagged, was a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A plastic wading pool serves as an experimental enclosure to test personality traits of box turtles. [Photo courtesy Benjamin Reed ...

An ambitious long-term study of box turtles seeks to study the population across North Carolina to determine the health of the species over a hundred years. With a story about an animal that inspires ...

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 ...

Keepers at the National Zoo’s Reptile Discovery Center are celebrating a conservation success five years in the making: a pair of Bourret’s box turtle hatchlings. They are the first of their species ...

HARWICH -- Mirroring the splash of fireworks in the sky, the orange and yellow starbursts on the carapace (top shell) of a box turtle is a defining characteristic of this rare species. They’re so well ...