Turtle-sniffing dogs searching Long Island woods to protect species

Last year Anna Thonis, a postdoctoral researcher at New York University, launched a study of Long Island’s Eastern box ...
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Box turtles. Coral. These illegally trafficked animals still need a good home

TORRANCE, Calif. — In the back of an office building, in a small room that smells like rotting strawberries, a criminal investigator watches his evidence crawl around on wood chips in five open ...
The Times Herald

Eastern Box Turtles in Wissahickon Valley Park: a unique and threatened animal

This year has been a great one for spotting Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina) in the Andorra Natural Area, the northern end of Wissahickon Park. We had three unique animals sighted: one ...
Rutland Herald

The Outside Story: Eastern box turtle life in a shell

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s collection of nature books and daydream about the creatures within. One species ...