The Truth About What’s Inside a Turtle Shell

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or ...

Do Sea Turtles Actually Feel It When You Touch Their Shells?

A sea turtle’s shell is living bone fused directly to its spine and ribs. It is not a detachable shield or an external case, ...

This Giant Ancient Turtle Dwarfs Its Modern Ancestors

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...
CNET

Shell-less ancestor of turtles revealed through holes in its head

A 260 million-year-old fossil has been determined to be the oldest ancestor of turtles found to date, revealing something about the reptile's mysterious past. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, ...
EurekAlert!

Origin of the turtle shell lies in digging

In today's turtles the shell has a key protective function. The animals can withdraw into it and protect themselves against predators. No other group of vertebrates has modified its physique to such ...
The Times of Israel on MSN

Marking a global first, Israel’s new sea turtle rescue center comes out of its shell

Complex with world's only breeding group to open next month with guided tours that will showcase researchers' efforts to ...
Animal Welfare Institute

Of Time and Turtles

Sy Montgomery brings her passion for animals and talent for storytelling to focus on turtles in her 34 th book, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell. Turtles, she points ...