Volunteers with the Tybee Island Sea Turtle Project Dawn Patrol spotted the crawl of a loggerhead sea turtle and were able to ...

Turtles are instantly recognized by the shell on their backs, but across species, there are some incredibly unique heads that ...

Last year Anna Thonis, a postdoctoral researcher at New York University, launched a study of Long Island’s Eastern box turtles, a "species of special concern" in New York — not officially threatened ...

These lovely Eastern box turtles basking in warm and curative sunlight are powerful symbols of nature. But first, the moon: This object of our wonder, romantic affection and scientific inquiry ...

MIAMI — Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice cores—are now being repurposed to better understand the lives of modern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shell integration typically involves 50 to 60 individual bones fusing into a permanent structural cage. The carapace creates a ...

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or treating them like clothing. Biology disagrees. A turtle shell is not an ...

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 — ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

Fans of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will soon be able to get their hands on special edition “Shelltoe” shoes. This year saw the release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, a new ...

As a kid growing up on the East Coast of the United States, I grew up a huge fan of the eastern box turtle. They’re a mostly terrestrial species of that you can find in the forest, in your lawn or ...

On a spring day in 1978, a fisherman caught a tiger shark in the lagoon surrounding Enewetak Atoll, part of the Marshall Islands in the north Pacific. That shark, along with the remains of a green sea ...