The box turtle and the painted turtle are both turtles from the family Emydidae. Both painted turtles and box turtles are popular pets across the world. They have a similar appearance, with colorful ...

In this wonderful Instagram post, you get to see a very rare creature. It is a pale yellow or cream sea turtle, and, what’s ...

Nicknamed the “dawn beak turtle,” the animals lived around 228 million years ago, and they were massive in size. ... The dawn beak turtle had a beak but no shell, ...

For example, the turtle has an “exceedingly large pelvis and shell reduction in the carapace,” Sandra Chapman, the Natural History Museum in London’s former curator of fossil reptiles and ...

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s ...

An illustration comparing the size of "P. mushaisaensis," based on a fossil shell, to a person measuring around 5 feet, 11 inches tall. The turtle may have reached a total body length of around 5 ...

Repair of injured turtle shells can be difficult and time-consuming. This article describes how to manage the freshwater turtle in this phase of healing and how to keep fracture sites 'water-free'.

That’s a challenge for young turtles whose ping-pong-ball-size and soft shells make them easy targets for raccoons, birds and other predators. Low flows impact the turtles’ prey, too.

Never take a wild turtle home with you. Turtle species native to Delaware are prohibited from being owned as pets, according ...

The bog turtle population is dwindling due to a shrinking habitat and the illegal pet trade. Zoo Knoxville is giving the tiny turtles a head start.

The growth began to resemble a turtle shell, with Kaitlyn and Tim adopting the nickname of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle” for their toddler. “We try to give him any superhero nickname ...