A recent tragedy occurred in Indian River County, Florida when an elderly man tried to save a turtle. The reptile was slowly ...

The ribs of a 240 million-year-old fossil hold clues to how the first turtle shell evolved. And its skull shape seems closer to that of lizards and snakes than to an ancestor of dinosaurs and birds.

A 220-million-year-old fossil found in southwestern China appears to have settled a long-simmering debate over reptile evolution: how did turtles get their shell? In a study published in the ...

Turtle shells are unique adaptations, not least because the shoulder blade sits inside the ribcage unlike all other vertebrates. Now, a new study of developing turtle embryos suggests how these ...

We loosely assembed our turtles to see if we liked the look and proportion. 3. Gather up your paints and paint the outside of the walnut "shell" and the tops of your pinecone petals.

A sea turtle initially weighed over 7 ½ pounds; her weight decreased to just over 6 pounds once experts cleaned her organism-covered shell.

The massive reptile had a shell that measured 8 feet in length and could have supported a turtle that weighed more than 2,500 pounds, the researchers noted.

You never ever, even if it's a small turtle, you never want to bring the turtle up with just the hook. It either has a hook in the mouth or it's entangled in fishing line.

This graphic suggests how the turtle got its shell, based on recent fossil finds: Over millions of years, thin bits of dermal armor ardened armor may have fused together to create the full shell ...

Why it's awesome: Cantor's giant softshell turtles — named in honor of Danish zoologist Theodore Edward Cantor — spend 95% of their lives completely motionless, buried under mud or sand in ...

A 3D-printed brace shell has helped one lucky loggerhead sea turtle in California get a clean bill of health after a innovative 2017 procedure ...

A Clearwater, Florida, infant who was born with a growth on his back was dubbed “little Ninja Turtle” by his parents, as it resembled a “turtle shell.” James McCallum, 19 months, was given ...