Spotting a stranded turtle, Jay Hardy jumped to rescue it, returning it to a small pond in a nearby neighborhood park.

A 3D-printed brace shell has helped one lucky loggerhead sea turtle in California get a clean bill of health. The sea creature arrived at San Diego's Birch Aquarium in 2014.

Turtles have a lower shell, called a plastron, and an upper shell, or carapace. In hard-shelled turtle species, the shells are made up of bony plates that are covered with scale-like “scutes.” ...

The use of box turtle shells for ceremonial purposes is allowed by the state Department of Wildlife, assistant chief of law enforcement Jim Edwards said. "It's a nongame species with no season ...

In total, the turtle shell consists of between 50 and 60 bones. It is divided into two parts- the upper domed section is called the carapace, while the flat belly section is called the plastron.

The biggest turtle ever described wasn’t an ancestor of today’s leatherback turtles or any other living sea turtles. But it looks like there are some things about being a giant, skin-shelled ...

Illustration of Eunotosaurusand its modern relatives. Mick Ellison Back in the olden days, or rather 260 million years ago in the very late Paleozoic Era, turtles looked very different from today ...