Six months ago, a striped mud turtle with a broken shell was found on the Gulf Coast of Florida, and thanks to a ...

A 260 million-year-old fossil has been determined to be the oldest ancestor of turtles found to date, revealing something about the reptile's mysterious past. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, ...

CONCORD, N.H. (CBS) - The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department issued a simple plea on Tuesday to anyone who comes across a turtle. "Do not paint turtle's shells," NH Fish and Game wrote on Facebook ...

Humongous Turtle Shell Unearthed. This shows an 8-million-year-old turtle shell that measured nearly 8 feet (2.4 meters) was discovered in Venezuela.

Do turtle shells actually consist of modified ribs? The answer, surprisingly, is yes. This weird-but-true claim went viral in mid-June 2021 when Twitter user and post-doctorate turtle expert Ceri ...

How smushed shells could help to resolve paleontological mysteries. By Asher Elbein You never know where a bit of unusual scientific research is going to lead. Consider a 2012 study about turtle ...

Nowadays, John Byrd and his team have no trouble finding the turtles they seek: The researchers simply attach a transmitter ...