142 dead turtles. Smashed shells. A 20-year researcher had never seen anything like it - until now.

Males were targeted. Females were left untouched. The reason comes down to the thickness of a shell.

Most of us grew up with the rabbit and the turtle story, where the turtle wins by simply taking its time. That idea tends to ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Turtles with shell-cracking jaws were far more likely to survive extinction due to their ability to be sustained on a restricted diet.

Sea turtle shells record life history layer by layer over many years, clearly revealing diet, stress, movement, and ocean ...

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 ...

The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on ...