Turtles are wonderful pets and can be great fun to observe and interact with, but they have some very specific needs that's ...

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 ...

Anna Maria Island beaches contain more than 400 sea turtle nests while two early nests hatched out on July 3. Yes, it’s hatch ...

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'.