Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo is from fieldwork of a research project investigating survival rates for wild box turtle nests. Photos were taken in ...

Finding a turtle nest in the wild is far more difficult than it sounds. Smithsonian researchers studying Eastern box turtles in Virginia have been using a combination of technology and surprisingly ...

Eastern box turtles are declining due to slow reproduction, habitat fragmentation, road mortality, and agricultural hazards. Researchers track turtles using radio telemetry and GPS loggers to map ...