the three-toed box turtle and the ornate box turtle. According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, the three-toed box turtle’s shell is plain olive or olive-brown with faint yellowish lines.

The Wonders of Wildlife Museum and Aquarium in the Missouri Ozarks has welcomed its fifth group of critically ill sea turtles for rehabilitation. Since its Sea Turtle Center was founded in 2020 ...

we have to do all we can to protect our nation’s turtle populations,” Bennett said. “We see hope in recent actions from states like Texas and Missouri, where all commercial turtle trapping was banned ...