Prescribed fires burn turtles but may help egg-laying females
Prescribed fires may kill individual box turtles, but the aftermath produces favorable plots for egg-laying females. “The fire does create this challenging ...
Box turtles
Flight attendants attempt to smuggle turtles into U.S.
Two China Eastern Airlines flight attendants tried to smuggle dozens of spotted (Clemmys guttata) and box turtles (Terrapene carolina) into China from Los Angeles. ...
JWM study: Turtles appear resilient to minor human development
Turtles are known to be especially sensitive to human pressures on ecosystems, but certain species may be resilient to minor human development, according to new ...
Citizen Scientists Track Declining Box Turtles
The bowl-sized reptiles could be living in your garden or you may have helped them cross the highway. You may have caught them, or kept one as a pet when you were a ...