LITTLE ROCK - Arkansas is home to 16 species of turtle, but only two are land dwellers - the three-toed box turtle and the ornate box turtle. Box turtles are the only turtles in North America with a ...

Box turtles are named for their unique ability to fully enclose themselves within their shell, thanks to the hinged lower half of the shell, called the plastron, according to a Virginia Wildlife ...

PROVIDENCE — Rescued from a smuggling operation that was sending them to Asia, the eastern box turtles were in bad shape when they arrived at the Roger Williams Park Zoo this summer. They were ...

Indian River Park is their natural habitat. They creep and crawl through the park — mostly unobserved — 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They move silently through their surroundings. Their natural ...

The turtles are used for meat and in Traditional Chinese Medicine, with major markets in Hong Kong, China, Singapore and Malaysia, mostly supplied from Indonesia. Animals are also exported as pets, ...

TORRANCE, Calif. — 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 ...