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 ...

Over the years Pennsylvania has appointed an assemblage of flora and fauna to be official representatives of the commonwealth. To that end, a congregation of various critters have risen to that lofty ...

There are two kinds of box turtles in Oklahoma, and both are found in the Skiatook area, the ornate box turtle, also called the plains box turtle, and the three-toed box turtle. The ornate box turtle ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, so it’s no surprise that many of the plants and animals chosen as symbols of the two states it straddles - North ...

When Ann Berry Somers was 7 years old and growing up in North Carolina, she encountered a box turtle on a path. She picked up the small reptile and looked into its eyes. Instead of retreating into its ...

Researchers used dogs to locate and track Eastern box turtles at Sarett Nature Center in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The dogs helped researchers capture a record number of turtles, aiming to understand ...

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