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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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'.