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 ...

There are two camps in the debate. As turtle embryos develop, their shells grow directly from the animals' ribs, and adult turtles' ribs are fused to the shell carapace. Some scientists conclude ...

The Turtle Shell 2.0 comes with a travel bag, an audio cable and a USB charging cable. There are also some Outdoor Tech stickers you can use on your SUV if you're a stickers-on-SUV person.

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.

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 ...