BARGARH: A social media influencer of Bargarh district has landed in soup for painting an image of Lord Jagannath on the ...

Turtles are fascinating creatures, from their prehistoric origins to their fantabulous bony shell, as unique to each turtle as a fingerprint. A pet turtle might be an appealing addition to a household ...

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

According to Everglades National Park in southern Florida, Florida redbelly turtles (Pseudemys nelsoni) are often seen with ...

Two ASU paleontologists have discovered a new prehistoric sea turtle. The nearly 4-feet-long fossilized shell was unearthed ...

Turtles don't live in their shells, they are their shells Turtles are not animals that live inside a shell, the shell is part of their body. A turtle’s shell is composed of two parts.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is reminding state residents about the emergence of New York’s ...

The dawn beak turtle had a beak but no shell, but modern turtles have all of the above. This strongly hints that the evolution of the species we see on Earth today is likely far more complicated ...

When we picture sea turtles in the wild, it's easy to envision them as armored warriors—their hard, resilient shells serving as near-impenetrable shields against oceanic threats like sharks.

In hard-shelled turtle species, the shells are made up of bony plates that are covered with scale-like “scutes.” The scutes are made of keratin, the same protein found in our fingernails and ...

Sunday, June 8 is World Oceans Day and we’re going to look at California’s state sea reptile as well as other turtles in our waters.

When we picture sea turtles in the wild, it’s easy to envision them as armored warriors – their hard, resilient shells serving as near-impenetrable shields against oceanic threats like sharks. These ...