Dark turtle

[osage outlaw]

I found this guy while trimming trails Friday.  We have a lot of turtles on our property.  This is by far the darkest I have ever seen.  It was mostly black.  I moved him to the other side of the trail so he could be on his way. 

[upstatenybowyer]

Shiny little guy. Any idea what species?

[Zuma]

I would be a little worried that the "dark one" could be a spy.
Stealing your secrets of bow making and such.
Zuma

[Hawkdancer]

That would be one real slow bow! 
Hawkdancer

[BowEd]

Used to see those little guys coon hunting in southern Illinois.The locals called them a terrapin species of box turtle.They would have a flipper hinge flap that would close on the bottom of their shell when they tucked heir head into their shell.

[wildcat hunter]

  A box turtle, they are cool. When I was a kid we would get them and make roads in the sand box and try to keep them on the roads. But they would always climb over the "guardrails" .  I read they spend their entire life living in a 300 yard area. They live to be 50 to 100 years old, that's a long time to spend in one area. I guess that's a big area to a turtle.

[osage outlaw]

We always called them box turtles.  When my sister was little she collected them.  My Dad built an enclosure in the yard for them.  Everyone would pick them up on the road and bring to her.  I don't know how many she had but it was a lot.  We let them loose on our property eventually.  Probably why we have so many around 35 years later.  She had a female lay eggs once.  She kept one of the babies that hatched and named it Fred.  We had him for years until I accidentally lost him one day when I was little.  She was mad at me big time.  She still brings that up about once a year. 

[PEARL DRUMS]

That's a Spotted Turtle, cool buggers.

[osage outlaw]

I don't think its a spotted turtle.  It's a box turtle

[PEARL DRUMS]

Nope, spotted turtle. Google it Hoosier.

[Pappy]

I see them once in a while on my place, move a lot of them off the road, I think during there mating season. Usually  in the spring when things start to warm up. Always see some when I am bush hogging,
I try to miss them when I see them in time.
 Pappy

[Stringman]

I'm goin with Clint on this one. Box turtle.

[PEARL DRUMS]

Don't make me take the time to download pics guys.....come on! there isn't a box species that looks anything like it, however the spotted turtle looks exactly the same. I think you guys fall into that "ironwood" category. If its hard wood and you don't know what it is, its ironwood.

[Danzn Bar]

Eastern box turtle  Terrapene carolina carolina (male)
DBar

[osage outlaw]

Eastern box turtle  Terrapene carolina carolina (male)
DBar

What the Dancing Bear said.  It's a boy box turtle.  Not a spotted turtle Pearly!