World Turtle Day reminds us that these 200-million-year-old survivors face modern threats like plastic pollution and habitat ...

While snapping turtles have no teeth, hatchlings have a toothlike growth on the ends of their noses, which they use to pierce the leathery eggshell. It falls off shortly after they hatch.

Here's something different for a change: some good news! Endangered sea turtle populations are showing signs of growing a little. That’s right. The animal that launched an assault on plastic ...

Turtles — formally known as chelonians ... Proxies using fossil pollens and the teeth of eel-like vertebrates called conodonts are the traditional methods of measuring deep burials, Dr ...

Turtles and tortoises are well known for their ... professionals safe from Myrtle’s powerful jaws. Her serrated teeth are likely strong enough to crush grass and some small hard shelled organisms.

A new species of giant turtle has been discovered in northern Spain. Measuring almost four metres in length, Leviathanochelys aenigmatica reveals that giant turtles were more common than previously ...