Turtles have been around for 200 million years—outliving dinosaurs, surviving ice ages, and basically minding their own ...

Every spring, someone in my town posts hand-drawn "turtle crossing" signs near the roads where turtles lay their eggs. I’d ...

Both leatherback sea turtles and the soft corrals’ presence near our shores coincides with our warming seas, Lotte Brundle ...

Unfortunately, the shell-like growth also began to hinder James’ life. He couldn’t sleep on his back, which is a safe sleep practice for babies, and his head and neck movement became more and ...

When a tiger shark shakes its head, its teeth, which are curved, can cut in both directions. It’s through this method that the tiger shark can cut through a thick sea turtle shell, which is made ...

A turtle’s gender is partially determined by the temperature at the time of hatching; low temperatures produce males and higher temperature result in females. Turtles are important to the ecosystem, ...

Matamata turtle. Image via Openverse. The Matamata turtle is arguably one of the most unusual-looking turtles on the planet. Its most distinctive feature is what appears to be hair-like growths ...

The process of obtaining a Turtle Shell in Minecraft isn’t that easy, and you will have to collect a specific number of scutes.

“We’re still investigating who the buyers are,” said Ratna Hendratmoko, the head of the Bali provincial conservation agency. Live green turtle being butchered for its flesh and shell, Indonesia.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have faced a few interesting foes over the years, though none match the weirdness of Wyrm, Bellybomb and others.

She was so weak and thin and when I cleaned off the algae from her shell and head, I noticed a bad wound on top of her shell. Bev named the turtle Solstice.

The hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), a critically endangered species, has long been exploited for its shell, used in a wide range of ornaments, including, in Costa Rica, the deadly ...