The top of the shell, or carapace, is dark in color and serrated along the back edge. The bottom shell, or plastron, is smaller than that of most other turtles and exposes a lot of flesh. Most people ...

They face many threats at sea and onshore. But finding what exactly killed a turtle that washed ashore on a Malaysian beach ...

“I quickly went to the turtle and as I brushed sand off her shell, I saw a large white spot on her back.” It was a “living tag”—a small, light-colored piece of tissue from the bottom of ...