Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or ...

A sea turtle’s shell is living bone fused directly to its spine and ribs. It is not a detachable shield or an external case, ...

Turtles are famous for their shells, but this feature is far more than a protective covering. A turtle’s shell is actually ...

Touren Pope was rockhounding in the Greater Green River Basin when he found a remarkable foot-long fossil. It turned out to be the shell of a ...

For years, the Coleman family's fishing trips on the Alabama Gulf Coast were routine. But in 2021, their outing near a riverbank led to an odd find: the shell of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Three months after a car hit an eastern box turtle in D.C., leaving her shell severely broken, the ...

NEW ORLEANS -- It's a marvelously ugly beast, with spiked and ridged armor, a sharply hooked beak, a fishing lure in its mouth and a nasty bite. But the alligator snapping turtle's hard shell holds ...

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KFVS) - Nature center staff in central Missouri freed a hawk from a turtle shell. According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, on Friday, September 27, the staff at Runge ...

It was a lengthy, setback-laden struggle watched by a city of increasingly curious people. But on Sunday, Hanoi’s legendary urban turtle, Cu Rua, was finally captured in the capital’s central Hoan ...