When we picture sea turtles in the wild, it's easy to envision them as armored warriors—their hard, resilient shells serving ...

A 3D-printed brace shell has helped one lucky loggerhead sea turtle in California get a clean bill of health. The sea creature arrived at San Diego's Birch Aquarium in 2014.

Turtles’ shells contain a chemical record of the environment—including highly enriched uranium, an indicator of nuclear weapons development. What can we learn from these accidental archivists?

Tortoises and turtles accumulate uranium isotopes in their shells, which could provide a reliable record of historical nuclear activity By Jake Buehler 22 August 2023 ...

And even when the shell’s owner wasn’t alive at the time of the intense activity, the polluted legacy lived on. A green sea turtle shell pulled from inside a captured tiger shark near the ...

A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.

How smushed shells could help to resolve paleontological mysteries. By Asher Elbein You never know where a bit of unusual scientific research is going to lead. Consider a 2012 study about turtle ...

Interestingly, other early fossils of different turtle species had shells but no beaked jaws. The dawn beak turtle had a beak but no shell, but modern turtles have all of the above.

A sea turtle initially weighed over 7 ½ pounds; her weight decreased to just over 6 pounds once experts cleaned her organism-covered shell.