Every winter, northern map turtles cluster together to hibernate in the water beneath a frozen lake. Then one year, their ...

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

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

A recent tragedy occurred in Indian River County, Florida when an elderly man tried to save a turtle. The reptile was slowly creeping across I-95 when an 87-year-old Vermont native attempted to help ...

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 ...