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

This snapping turtle was rescued near Brookfield, N.S., last fall after suffering extensive damage to the shell and a broken pelvis. On Thursday, ...

A 70-year-old wounded turtle was rescued Tuesday, May 19 after being run over by a car in the Capital Region, police said.The ...

MIAMI — Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice cores—are now being repurposed to better understand the lives of modern ...

The sea creature arrived at San Diego's Birch Aquarium in 2014 Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor in Journalism.

India marked a major conservation milestone on Endangered Species Day as the country’s first satellite-tagged Ganges ...

Unique among Earth’s creatures, turtles are the only animals to form a shell on the outside of their bodies through a fusion of modified ribs, vertebrae and shoulder girdle bones. The turtle shell is ...