A turtle’s shell makes for a great portable home, offering a huge amount of protection to the animal living inside. But this carapace is nothing more than an evolutionary byproduct of another ...

The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) reported that its sea turtle team documented 167 unique turtles this ...

How smushed shells could help to resolve paleontological mysteries. By Asher Elbein You never know where a bit of unusual scientific research is going to lead. Consider a 2012 study about turtle ...

The long-standing mystery of how the turtle got its shell may have been solved by a Japanese study. The paper, published today in the journal Science, shows the outer shell of turtles develop from the ...

Vida, a loggerhead sea turtle, was stranded for two days on a beach near St. Augustine before someone saw she was alive and got help. When staff at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center returned Vida to the ...

Long, long ago, in a time so far in the past it preceded the dinosaurs and the continents, lived a tiny creature named “grandfather turtle.” It had many of the qualities of the turtles we know and ...