When we picture sea turtles in the wild, it's easy to envision them as armored warriors—their hard, resilient shells serving ...

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

Turtles are fascinating creatures that have roamed the Earth for millions of years, outlasting dinosaurs and adapting to a wide variety of environments. Whether they’re gliding through the oceans, ...

The bony structure is part of the turtle’s skeleton and spine, fused with its bones, and therefore the turtle cannot be separated from its shell. But when the turtle is not feeling vulnerable to ...

Researchers excavating a fossilized turtle shell from Panama’s Caribbean coast. Photo: Carlos De Gracia, University of Vienna and STRI A team of paleontologists studying the fossilized shell of ...

Shell Structure and Function. Turtles: Turtles possess flatter, streamlined shells that are thinner and lighter. This design helps them swim more efficiently in water, ...

A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.

The DNA comes from the remains of a turtle shell first uncovered in 2015 in the Chagres Formation on Panama’s Caribbean coast. It represents the oldest known fossil evidence of Lepidochelys turtles.

When we picture sea turtles in the wild, it’s easy to envision them as armored warriors – their hard, resilient shells serving as near-impenetrable shields against oceanic threats like sharks. These ...