The scutes are made of keratin, the same protein found in our fingernails and hair, and give turtle shells their color. Hinged-shell turtles have a split in the plastron, just behind the turtle ...

World Turtle Day is celebrated every year on May 23rd. It is a special day to learn about turtles and tortoises and to help protect them. This day was started i ...

I took this photo while kayaking a section of the Susquehanna River near the Norman Wood Bridge in Martic Township on May 7, ...

The flatness of a turtle shell, he found, could help paleontologists ... Most methods for determining burial depth — analyzing the color of fossilized pollen, for instance — only work ...

Article by Molly Schafer Photos courtesy of Molly Schafer, Mat Smith, Andy Tocydlowski, Maya Walker, Jim White, Kenneth Geisert and University Archives September 10, 2024 The discovery of a ...