A sea turtle initially weighed over 7 ½ pounds; her weight decreased to just over 6 pounds once experts cleaned her ...

“[It] had become like a turtle shell on his back,” she explained ... it and say it’s a shark bite or something,” Kaitlyn pointed out. “We will definitely take the scaring over ...

A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.

A massive loggerhead sea turtle that was hit by a boat off Florida’s Atlantic coast arrived at a turtle hospital in need of ...

The remains of a turtle shell recently found on Panama’s Caribbean ... including one of Tyrannosaurus rex,” Dr. Cadena pointed out, referring to the ancient DNA. The researchers made an ...

The shells of chelonians—think turtles, tortoises, and sea turtles—grow in layers, keeping a time-stamped record of environmental conditions. Uranium has shown up in the layers of turtles ...

How smushed shells could help to resolve paleontological mysteries. By Asher Elbein You never know where a bit of unusual scientific research is going to lead. Consider a 2012 study about turtle ...