This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — until a changing planet proved too much for even the largest ...

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An ancestor of modern-day turtles, a shell-less creature with a long tail once puttered around an ancient lake, likely munching on insects and worms with its peglike teeth, a new study finds.

PHOENIX (FOX 10) --The Phoenix Herpetological Society is home to hundreds of turtles of all different shapes and sizes, but it's the ones that come in with broken shells that need a little extra love.

Now, similar 3D technology is being used to scan the loggerhead. She has gone from 90 to 200 pounds, but she still has the same 3D-printed brace that goes on her shell made. Aquarist Kaelie Spencer ...

Sea turtle nesting season runs March to October in Florida, however, the creatures can always be seen at Tipsy Turtle. The Sanibel restaurant and bar has adopted the shelled reptile as its mascot 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 ...

A turtle’s shell makes for a great portable home, offering a huge amount of protection to the animal living inside. But this carapace is nothing more than an evolutionary byproduct of another ...