Ten Eastern box turtles are on their way to finding a new home in Southwest Ohio, after researchers opened the gates to their enclosure at Bowyer Farm on Wednesday afternoon, giving them a taste of ...

Now that it's officially summer in Greater Cincinnati, you may notice a familiar hard-shell creature: the box turtle. Eastern box turtles are most commonly found in the woodlands throughout Ohio and ...

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 ...

Ryan Kellman / NPR In the back of an office building, in a small room that smells like rotting strawberries, a criminal investigator watches his evidence crawl around on wood chips in five open ...

Karen Deville usually looks forward to rainy days — but not just because it waters her plants. Deville is delighted that when it rains, and box turtles creep out of her yard, in Baton Rouge's ...

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN — A pregnant turtle needs your help to find her way home. An Eastern box turtle, estimated to be about 10 years old, was left at a drop off area at Red Creek Wildlife Center in Wayne ...

Scientists with the Ohio Division of Wildlife take a final round of health measurements before releasing a group of Eastern box turtles into the wild. Ten rescued box turtles have new homes in the ...