Then, they measured where the shells fell on the spectrum, Dr. Petermann said, of “normal perfect turtle shell to pancake.” All of the shells showed certain consistent patterns at various ...

On July 8, 1965, an anonymous box turtle received the moniker L2, a nod to the notch placed on the second scute (geometric pattern) on his left shell. The first Earth Day wouldn’t take place for five ...

Air Jordan 1 “Ninja Turtles” Celebrates The Green Shelled Heroes Written by Caryn ... while the tumbled leather overlays are ...

Instead, the small round shapes bearing a leaflike pattern were once the shells of baby turtles that lived during the time of dinosaurs. Scientists have nicknamed the turtle species ...

The growth pattern on each turtle’s shell depends on its species. Box turtles, for example, grow their scute outward over time, like how humans grow fingernails.

The shell of an adult hawksbill sea turtle consists of about a dozen overlapping scales colored with streaks of gold, brown, orange, and red. Hawksbills have long been hunted for their shells ...