Turtle shells evolved over the course of 300 million years, but self-defense wasn't the initial driver, researchers think.

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Sure, everyone knows the theme song, but the 'heroes on a half-shell' have a trove of tunes. When discussing the Teenage ...

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 ...

Russia has built a new version of the "Turtle Tank" with some new features on it. In a video, a Russian soldier shows a foldable metal bed inside the structure. The constant presence of drones has ...

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In cartoons, when a turtle is spooked, it retreats into and closes up its shell. While used for comic effect, this imagery is based in fact – although not all turtles are capable of this protective ...

BBC footage shows baby painted turtles frozen solid through winter, then miraculously thaw and come back to life ...

The shells of chelonians—think turtles, tortoises, and sea turtles—grow in layers, keeping a time-stamped record of environmental conditions. Uranium has shown up in the layers of turtles’ and ...

A team of paleontologists studying the fossilized shell of a sea turtle from the Miocene Epoch found something surprising and perhaps impossible: preserved bone cells that they believe may contain ...