As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s ...

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.

Not only can you place a turtle shell on sticks to collect rainwater, but you can also use them as a sled to move around in the snow more quickly. In Sons of the Forest though, ...

The Fernbank Museum in Atlanta debuts "Turtles," an exhibition that focuses on the anatomy, behaviors and resiliency of turtles, including several spe ...

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.

Dear Dr. John, I have two turtles, ages 55 and 35. They have been healthy for almost their entire lives. I’ve never had to take them to the vet but recently, one of them developed a hole in ...

In cartoons, when a turtle is spooked, it retreats into and closes up its shell. While used for comic effect, this imagery is based in fact — although not all turtles are capable of this ...

A turtle who was the unlucky recipient of a golf ball to the shell at a golf course on Cape Cod is in Cape Wildlife Center’s care and doing well, the center said.

Some new action figure sets for the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem movie gives us a first look at the "Turtle Tots," and these baby Heroes in a Half-Shell are seriously ...

Animalogic. Heroes In A Half Shell: Why Turtles Evolved Their Shell. Posted: February 24, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025. 530 million years ago in the Early Cambrian period, earth’s ...

A Clearwater, Florida, infant who was born with a growth on his back was dubbed “little Ninja Turtle” by his parents, as it resembled a “turtle shell.” James McCallum, 19 months, was given ...