Last year Anna Thonis, a postdoctoral researcher at New York University, launched a study of Long Island’s Eastern box ...

April, the 16-month-old Labrador retriever, is becoming a pro at finding the Eastern box turtle.

NYU researchers are surveying the Eastern box turtle population to better understand how they are faring against habitat ...

The three-toed box turtles, Missouri’s state reptile, crawled and rested somewhere in the woods and under the brush.The pack of floppy-eared, chocolate brown Boykin spaniels, here all the way from ...

Seven Boykin spaniels trained to sniff out turtles by their owner John Rucker helped the Saint Louis Zoo find and tag the box turtles living at the zoo's new WildCare Park Kelli Bender is the Pets ...

AGAWAM — Mobie sniffed out three eastern box turtles Wednesday morning, hours before students arrived for Eversource’s wildlife detection and protection training program. Two of the turtles were in a ...

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 ...

Indian River Park is their natural habitat. They creep and crawl through the park — mostly unobserved — 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They move silently through their surroundings. Their natural ...

Dogs are man's best friend, but it turns out they're also a researcher's best friend, too. The South Bend Tribune reported on four Boykin spaniels tasked with helping researchers gain insights into ...

TOLEDO – Before you can study turtles, you have to find them, and in an environment of hardwood forests, densely covered ground and damp bottomlands such as those at Oak Openings and some of the other ...