Six Boykin spaniels lead a search for ornate box turtles with Matt Allender, Chicago Zoological Society clinical veterinarian and director of the University of Illinois Wildlife Epidemiology ...

Ornate box turtles tend to walk along walls until they find an exit. Active turtles will keep following the continuous loop, whereas inactive turtles may not walk at all in the 10-minute trial.

The ornate box turtle is the subject of fieldwork this week in western Lee County, part of the 15th year of a box turtle health survey — the largest and longest in North America, researchers say.

Ongoing studies at Nachusa Grasslands, and other places, tells more about ornate box turtles and their place as shown by a day with Matt Allender and his team as well as John Rucker and his Boykin ...

JOHNSON COUNTY — In a copse of trees in Johnson County, birdsong trilled over the sound of nearby cars on Monday. In this small patch of wilderness, hidden away behind houses and businesses ...

The ornate box turtle, the state reptile of Kansas, is the next topic of the Smoky Hill Museum First Thursday Presentation. "Kansas ornate box turtles ... and their Home on the range," begins at 5 ...

In Illinois, ornate box turtles are very rare and listed as threatened. On Tuesday, I tagged along with a group headed by Kim Roman, field biologist for the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission.

“The ornate box turtles are a really important part of the prairie ecosystem, which once covered the majority of states like Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas,” said Elizabeth ...

Back in 2017, the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission held an online contest in which people could vote for their choice for state reptile. The ornate box turtle was a runaway winner, besting the ...

The ornate box turtle joins the sandhill crane as the first state symbols to be designated since 1998. Ricketts named the crane as Nebraska’s state migratory bird in March, as the first wave of ...