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 ...

Ornate Box Turtles are sexually dimorphic. Males have red or orange eyes and red to orange spots on their forelimbs; whereas, females have yellowish-colored eyes and yellow spotting on the forelimbs.

Ornate Box Turtles have single hinge shells, which allows them to completely enclose their bodies from predators. "They can almost completely go into their shell," said Kinzlie Johnson, a 5th grader.

The lifespan of an ornate box turtle in the wild is approximately 35 years, for the three-toed it’s about 70 years. Some kinds of box turtles can live for a hundred years.

A U.S. Forest Service study noted ornate box turtles mate in the spring or early summer, and females can retain eggs for as long as 50 days, allowing them to lay during optimal conditions.

In 2021 Reed determined the bio-personalities of more than a hundred ornate box turtles. The first step was to classify each turtle in terms of three behavioral traits: boldness, activity level ...

The most common are the eastern box turtle and a widespread western form known as the ornate box turtle. For more than a century herpetologists have been conducting studies on box turtles.

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 ...

An ornate box turtle found May 6, 2021, at the Nachusa Grasslands as a team of researchers and veterinary students perform health assessments on the threatened turtles.

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.