Eleven-year-old Touren Pope was hunting for rocks in southwest Wyoming when he came across the fossil of a soft-shelled ...

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or ...

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, ...

Sometimes animated turtles seem to live inside their shells like it’s a tiny home. They may even hop out of the shell and run around. That’s funny in cartoons and games, but my friend Ryan Wagner told ...

Ever consider the question of whether a turtle can truly pull its head into its shell like a cartoon representation in a children’s tale? The answer is far from being merely yes or no. As mentioned in ...

Turtles are famous for their shells, but this feature is far more than a protective covering. A turtle’s shell is actually ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shell integration typically involves 50 to 60 individual bones fusing into a permanent structural cage. The carapace creates a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or ...