Modern turtles are synonymous with the shells that serve as protection from predators, but a recently discovered fossil from close to 230 million years ago suggests that the animals didn’t always have ...

If you’ve ever looked closely at a turtle, you’ve probably wondered what that hard, rounded shell is actually made of. Looks like armour. It looks removable, like a helmet or a protective covering ...

A team of paleontologists studying the fossilized shell of a sea turtle from the Miocene Epoch found something surprising and perhaps impossible: preserved bone cells that they believe may contain ...

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A new fossil discovered by researchers might leave fans of turtles a little shell-shocked. A study published in the journal Nature finds a fossil from a turtle roaming Earth 228 million years ago had ...

When it comes to animals with iconic features, the turtle is high on the list. Deer have horns, kangaroos have pouches, humans have existential dread and turtles have shells…right? Apparently, that ...

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or treating them like clothing. Biology disagrees. A turtle shell is not an ...