William Shockley and his teenage son are fishing for freshwater turtles the same way their family has done for four generations in south-central Florida: deploying about a mile of nylon line on four ...

The black soft shell turtles, which are often termed "vultures of the water" for its critical scavenging role in maintaining aquatic ecosystems, were in abundance in rivers in Assam and parts of ...

These albino turtles have been adopted by an aquarium whose shell-shocked staff took pity on their unusual looks. A student asked the aquarium to home the Chinese soft-shelled turtles when she left ...

Video shows a fast little turtle breaking the slow-moving stereotype as it speeds away through water. The entire video is seven seconds long, but it takes this Spiny Soft-shelled turtle less than four ...

After peaking in 2022 with hundreds of green sea turtle strandings, cases of soft-shell syndrome are in decline. It is believed the disease is connected to the turtles' food source, after seagrass ...

Chinese soft shelled turtles urinate through their mouth. Credit: The Journal of Experimental Biology / Ip Yuen Kwong The Journal of Experimental Bi Chinese soft shelled turtles urinate through their ...

An “extinct” species of turtle is being reintroduced to the wild after a small population was found flourishing in a pond at an Indian temple. The black softshell turtle (Nilssonia nigricans) was ...

Clad in hard, armoured shells, turtles have a unique body plan unlike that of any other animal. Their shells have clearly served them well and the basic structure has gone largely unchanged since the ...