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 5:30 ...

FRANKLIN, Ill. — For nearly 50 years, the ornate box turtle has been endangered or threatened. Highly sought after as pets, they're even poached and traded on the black market. Conservationists are ...

An ornate box turtle is seen through an archway during the exploration test of a Coe College trial. (Cameron Kolthoff/Coe College) Buy Photo Would you go sky diving? Strike up a conversation with a ...

MIDLAND, Texas — The transition from the winter season to the spring season brings out the desert box turtle, also known as the ornate box turtle. Ornate box turtle sightings become more common during ...

Ornate box turtles feed on a variety of insects so we often kill off a major food source for them by spraying pesticides. In addition to insects, they will eat carrion, crickets, grasshoppers, worms ...

After Kansas lawmakers failed to pass heightened protections for ornate box turtles, government regulators have taken action to protect the state reptile from poachers who would have them "exported ...

Turtles are such a familiar sight to most north-central Texas and southwestern Oklahoma residents that we think little about these unique and adaptable animals. Turtles have been present in their ...