When we picture sea turtles in the wild, it's easy to envision them as armored warriors—their hard, resilient shells serving as near-impenetrable shields against oceanic threats like sharks. These ...

Bill Parsons, a biologist for the Little Traverse Bay Band's natural resources department, enlisted the help of his ...

Other turtles with signs of shell disease look bleached and dull and felt soft and rough. Treatment for the disease started in 2015, but it has been hard to tell how well it is working.

Making the shakers for Indian stomp dances has changed little. OKMULGEE -- When the summer heat turns brutal, scores of stomp dancers across the region look to their local dance grounds and annual ...

Modern eastern box turtles display a dizzying amount of variation. A box turtle in Oklahoma can be straw-colored while the same species in Florida is dark with yellow sunburst patterns. Adult box ...

They recognized it by a mark they placed on the shell in 1967, when it was already full grown. While box turtles reach sexual maturity at about 4 years, they do not reach their full adult size ...

The turtle, rescued in 2013 with a broken shell and twisted spine, this month received a 3-D printed brace that fills a gap in her carapace, the upper portion of her shell.

The oceanic crab Planes minutus lives far from land. The crabs find a refuge between the upper shell and tail of loggerhead sea turtles, where they are nearly always found as a monogamous pair, one ...