Turtles are fascinating creatures, from their prehistoric origins to their fantabulous bony shell, as unique to each turtle ...

“This creature was over six feet long, it had a strange disc-like body and a ... Interestingly, other early fossils of different turtle species had shells but no beaked jaws.

Texas beaches are seeing a spike in endangered Kemp’s ridley turtle nests, the tiniest sea turtle species in the world.

Its peculiarities are not confined to its strange nose ... level rises and the eggs are swamped, the baby turtles hatch out explosively. Species such as these unique turtles are culturally ...

The softshell turtle is followed by the mudpuppy ... The ranking not only highlights species that are often “weird and wonderful,” like the mudpuppy, he says, but also offers a kind of ...