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

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or treating them like clothing. Biology disagrees. A turtle shell is not an ...

Males were targeted. Females were left untouched. The reason comes down to the thickness of a shell.

Most of us grew up with the rabbit and the turtle story, where the turtle wins by simply taking its time. That idea tends to ...

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