When we picture sea turtles in the wild, it’s easy to envision them as armored warriors – their hard, resilient shells serving as near-impenetrable shields against oceanic threats like sharks. These ...

Summary and Key Points: The ongoing war in Ukraine has forced both Ukrainian and Russian forces to innovate due to severe shortages in weapons systems. One such Russian innovation is the “turtle tank, ...

Turtle shells evolved over the course of 300 million years, but self-defense wasn't the initial driver, researchers think.

LOS ANGELES — It’s a debate that’s left more than a few scientists shell-shocked: Just how did the turtle come to acquire its unique suit of armor? Some have insisted for decades that the turtle’s ...

In cartoons, when a turtle is spooked, it retreats into and closes up its shell. While used for comic effect, this imagery is based in fact – although not all turtles are capable of this protective ...

In a brief, violent sequence captured on video in 2024, a Ukrainian first-person-view drone dived through an open hatch of a Russian "turtle tank" near Bakhmut and detonated inside, destroying 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.

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 ...

The earliest known ancestors of turtles appeared about 220–240 million years ago (in the late Triassic period), roughly the ...