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 ...

Video: How the turtle got its shell Embryo of a Chinese soft-shelled turtle ( Pelodiscus sinensis ) The turtle rib cage and shoulder blade as compared to a human Detail of the turtle rib cage and ...

Green shows the scapula, red humerus, pink radius and ulna yellow phalanx, metacarpals and carpals. Note between the animals, there are minor morphological change and variation in numbers though, ...

This is the skeleton of turtle. Scapula is colored green, ilium blue. Note scapula and ilium is inside the carapace made with ribs. This video relates to an article that appeared in the July 10 ...

A new Middle Triassic stem-turtle from Germany sheds new light on the evolutionary transition of turtles and their long-contentious relationships to other amniotes.

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The evolutionary origins of the costal and neural bony plates of the turtle shell have long remained elusive. Here the authors show, through comparative morphological and embryological analyses ...

Injured sea turtles that heal at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center usually take a short pickup truck ride to Jekyll Island's beach where they're released into the Atlantic as visitors watch. Sunburst, … ...

Oracle bones are pieces of ox scapula or turtle plastron, which were used for divination during the late Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 B.C.). They bear the earliest significant corpus of ancient Chinese ...

Note that the scapula and ilium are outside of the ribs. This video relates to an article that appeared in the July 10, 2009, issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS.