Tag: Turtle Evolution
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Before the Box: The 260-Million-Year Story of the Eastern Box Turtle
The Eastern Box Turtle is one of the most familiar and beloved turtles of eastern North America, yet its story begins far beyond the forests, fields, and backyards where we encounter it today. To understand this small, domed, gold-mottled turtle, we have to travel through deep time to the first shell-less turtle ancestors, to the Triassic…
Sense of Place 