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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A young boy found Rockalina, a wild eastern box turtle, while playing near his New York home in 1977. His family took her in and for nearly 50 years, she stayed there. She remained on a slick ...