I want to look at the land-based turtle, the Eastern Box Turtle. The box turtle has a high-domed upper shell called the carapace. It is often highly ornamented with a different pattern ...

The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical ... of Europe and North America, and the Eastern Pacific green turtle, which has ...

The eastern box turtle is a subspecies of the common box ... The turtles were bound in socks to protect their shells and so they could not move and alert authorities, officials said.

The turtles grow to around 6 inches, can live around 100 years and can have colorful shell patterns, the office said. The eastern box turtle is protected through an international convention ...

Imagine that your body is 10 times the size of your limbs. Each of your four legs are short, thick, round and tipped with long narrow claws. Your body is also your home that you carry around with ...