The eastern box turtle, recognizable by its dark brown or black shell with yellow streaks, is usually found in the woodlands throughout Ohio.

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 ...

So they do eat meat and plants and when they eat things like berries, it's gotta come out the other end eventually. So when turtles are super duper poopers, they're gonna be spreading seeds around.

A good day for ornate box turtles, the people studying them and Boykin spaniels Ongoing studies at Nachusa Grasslands, and other places, tells more about ornate box turtles and their place as ...

Ornate box turtles measure about 4 to 5-inches long and normally have a domed, dark brown top shell with short yellow lines and dashes radiating from the center of each shell segment.