Learn how researchers use archaeological techniques to show how sea turtle shells grow in layers that capture chemical clues ...

Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice ...

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 ...

Local scientists examine how noise from ocean-based energy projects – like wind farm construction – could affect protected ...

Hawksbill turtles are on the critically endangered list, but one Australian wildlife refuge is trying to help ...

Humongous Turtle Shell Unearthed. This shows an 8-million-year-old turtle shell that measured nearly 8 feet (2.4 meters) was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The broad-shelled river ...

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 ...

Turtles that crushed hard-shelled prey like clams and snails were reported to be more than five times more likely to survive ...

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, ...

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 ...