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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Complex with world's only breeding group to open next month with guided tours that will showcase researchers' efforts to ...

A recent tragedy occurred in Indian River County, Florida when an elderly man tried to save a turtle. The reptile was slowly creeping across I-95 when an 87-year-old Vermont native attempted to help ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...