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 ...

An eastern box turtle kept as a pet has been rehabilitated by a rescue in New Jersey and got her first chance to see the sun in decades this month Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter ...

The ornate has bright yellow markings on the top shell (carapace) and on the bottom shell (plastron) and has four toes on the hind foot. The three-toed box turtle has three toes on the hind foot.

Box turtles usually lay about five eggs ... This system is known as environmental sex determination. Cooler eggs at the bottom of the nest are most likely to spawn males, while the upper, warmer ...

The box turtle's domed carapace is hinged at either ... Usually in May or June, as long as four years after mating, the female (her underside is flat, his slightly concave) travels, as much ...

The box turtle has a high-domed upper shell called the carapace. It is often highly ornamented with a different pattern, often in a dull yellow color. The bottom shell, called the plastron ...

Called the Box Turtle Connection, its goal is to monitor ... Researchers in Long Island, NY found a turtle in 2002 with markings on its bottom shell that showed it had been captured in 1921 ...

There’s a good reason for the box turtle’s name. A hinge on the bottom of its shell lets the land-dwelling turtle pull its legs, head, and tail inside and close it up tight — like a box.