The ornate box turtle, the state reptile of Kansas, will be the subject of June's First Thursday Presentation at the Smoky Hill Museum. Professor Benjamin Reed from Washburn University will give ...

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.

Ornate box turtles live in grasslands throughout most of Nebraska. It’s one of 48 different species of reptiles that inhabit Nebraska. The ornate box turtle got its name from its single hinge shell.

When a lull comes in searching for ornate box turtles, he sends Rucker on ahead. It worked Wednesday at Nachusa Grasslands, a 4,000-acre property of The Nature Conservancy 100 miles west of Chicago.

Monday, May 20, they were out at a property owned by Bur Oak Land Trust near Coralville, sniffing out the threatened Ornate Box Turtle.

TOPEKA, Kan. (KANSAS REFLECTOR) - A Kansas bill could ban people from capturing or possessing an ornate box turtle, the state reptile, but some stakeholders are concerned this may have unintended ...

Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks rules will protect ornate box turtles, the state reptile, from being "exported into extinction" by poachers.

The ornate box turtle was a runaway winner, besting the prairie lizard, bullsnake, snapping turtle, six-lined racerunner lizard and western hognose snake. For whatever reason, that didn't ...

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 ...

The ornate box turtle is Nebraska’s official state reptile following a proclamation from Gov. Pete Ricketts on Friday. The turtle lives in grasslands across much of the state, according to the ...