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

Ecologists from the Lake County Forest Preserves are testing an experimental treatment to protect Blanding’s turtles from a dangerous, potentially fatal fungal disease. In 2022, during routine health ...

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 ...