A recent tragedy occurred in Indian River County, Florida when an elderly man tried to save a turtle. The reptile was slowly ...

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 ...

The ribs of a 240 million-year-old fossil hold clues to how the first turtle shell evolved. And its skull shape seems closer to that of lizards and snakes than to an ancestor of dinosaurs and birds.

In 2015, in a 240-million-year-old lake deposit in southern Germany, Rainer Schoch and I identified skeletal remains of an even earlier stem-turtle, Pappochelys, which is Greek for “grandfather ...

While it didn’t have a shell, Pappochelys did have broad ribs in the trunk section (above, in yellow), which had a T-shaped cross-section – like Odontochelys and Eunotosaurus.But unlike the ...

Now, using a camera suction-cupped to the sea creature's shell, scientists have recorded footage of a leatherback's lunchtime for the first time—from the turtle's perspective.

The shell of an adult hawksbill sea turtle consists of about a dozen overlapping scales colored with streaks of gold, brown, orange, and red. Hawksbills have long been hunted for their shells ...