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 ...

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

Ever consider the question of whether a turtle can truly pull its head into its shell like a cartoon representation in a children’s tale? The answer is far from being merely yes or no. As mentioned in ...

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

Living up to its suckerfish moniker with a forehead wrinklier than your feet after a night in the tub, the remora suctions ...