Discover what’s inside a turtle shell, living bone fused to spine and ribs, packed with organs, muscles, and nerves that ...

Turtles are famous for their shells, but this feature is far more than a protective covering. A turtle’s shell is actually ...

The evolutionary riddle of the turtle shell is one step closer to being solved thanks to groundbreaking research published this week in Science. A team of Japanese scientists has uncovered anatomical ...

From which ancestors have turtles evolved? How did they get their shell? New data provided by the Joint International Turtle Genome Consortium, led by researchers from RIKEN in Japan, BGI in China, ...

How turtles evolved their unique body shape has baffled scientists for years. They are unusual, even among other armoured animals such as the armadillo, in that their shell has changed very little ...

Humongous Turtle Shell Unearthed. This shows an 8-million-year-old turtle shell that measured nearly 8 feet (2.4 meters) was discovered in Venezuela. Christopher Schwarzenegger Hits the Red Carpet and ...

Association president Steve Fisher said it was a deceased adult green sea turtle and “the top of the shell had been struck and shattered”. There were several suggestions the marine animal might have ...

Touren Pope was rockhounding in the Greater Green River Basin when he found a remarkable foot-long fossil. It turned out to be the shell of a ...

For years, the Coleman family's fishing trips on the Alabama Gulf Coast were routine. But in 2021, their outing near a riverbank led to an odd find: the shell of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea ...