Cowabunga, movie dude! The heroes in a half shell are heading back to the big screen and this time it’s all about the ooze.

This session takes you through a modern interpretation of a contemporary March on Washington that will inspire the next generation. 12 p.m., King Library, Digital Humanities Center (King 113), 150 E.

In 2025, 11-year-old Touren Pope was rock hunting with his grandparents in southwest Wyoming when he stumbled upon something extraordinary: a prehistoric fossilized turtle shell. Experts examined the ...

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before modern turtles evolved into the familiar forms we recognize today, some ...

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 ...

The turtle neck retraction requires distinctive cervical features. Turtles are classified into two main categories, depending on whether they retract their heads by pulling them straight backwards, ...

A sea turtle’s shell is living bone fused directly to its spine and ribs. It is not a detachable shield or an external case, as certain quirky cartoons have shown. The shell grows with the turtle, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — ...

Turtles are fascinating creatures with a rich history of evolution that spans over 200 million years. One of their most distinctive features is their shell, which not only serves as a protective ...

Abstract: This study aims to develop tourism cultural and creative shell carving jewelry with regional characteristics of Dalian by applying morphological analysis and the Analytic Hierarchy Process.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The broad-shelled river turtle (Chelodina expansa) falls into a group known as side-neck turtles.

Humongous Turtle Shell Unearthed. This shows an 8-million-year-old turtle shell that measured nearly 8 feet (2.4 meters) was discovered in Venezuela. Suspect sent text saying he would 'take out' ...