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 ...

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — until a changing planet proved too much for even the largest ...

Complex with world's only breeding group to open next month with guided tours that will showcase researchers' efforts to ...

Scientists have been closely monitoring a map turtle population after 10 percent died in 2022. They found a surprising ...

Ever consider the question of whether a turtle can truly pull its head into its shell like a cartoon representation in a ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — A tweet from a UCSD Postdoc went viral this month. Turtle expert Ceri Weber posted that a turtle's shell is actually not a shell at all, but rather a set of modified ribs. It's true ...

The sea creature arrived at San Diego's Birch Aquarium in 2014 Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor in Journalism.

Do turtle shells actually consist of modified ribs? The answer, surprisingly, is yes. This weird-but-true claim went viral in mid-June 2021 when Twitter user and post-doctorate turtle expert Ceri ...

A 260 million-year-old fossil has been determined to be the oldest ancestor of turtles found to date, revealing something about the reptile's mysterious past. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, ...