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.

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 ...

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 ...

Box turtles generally live 30-40 years in the ... native to central Pennsylvania with a hinged plastron, which is the underside of the shell. When threatened, it pulls its head and legs inside ...

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.

News outlets report that veterinarians had performed surgery on the grapefruit-sized eastern box turtle found in July with fractures to the underside of his shell. Zoo veterinary extern Garrett ...

Called the Box Turtle Connection, its goal is to monitor ... found a turtle in 2002 with markings on its bottom shell that showed it had been captured in 1921 by a naturalist who, back then ...

the three-toed box turtle is seen in wooded areas. The ornate has bright yellow markings on the top shell (carapace) and bottom shell (plastron) and has four toes on the hind foot. As the name ...

The Eastern box turtle, affectionately called the "Lego Turtle" by the Maryland Zoo, was brought in during July 2018 with "multiple fractures on his plastron, the bottom part of his shell," Dr ...

Box turtles are so long-lived ... You can tell by clues like the shape of the bottom shell. On the edge of the shell are some V-shaped notches. These were made deliberately as part of the study.