If you're on Topsail Island on Monday, July 7, 2025, you have a chance to learn all about the sea turtles that call our ...

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s ...

Turtles have a lower shell, called a plastron, and an upper shell, or carapace. In hard-shelled turtle species, the shells are made up of bony plates that are covered with scale-like “scutes.” The ...

The most recently designated state symbol is Pennsylvania’s Official state amphibian. No, it’s not a frog or toad, it’s a ...

This stunning sea turtle isn’t albino—it's leucistic. Here's what makes this pale yellow turtle so rare and how it beat the ...

Sort of cute, sort of creepy, turtles are a part of summer in Upper Michigan. We like to be in the turtle’s watery wonderland ...

Inside are box turtles, each with a dark shell splashed with bright yellow or orange. ... the Turtle Conservancy houses 32 turtles from outside the U.S., including Australia, Brazil, the Congo ...

Box turtles also have a hinged plastron (bottom shell) that allows them to close up shop in the front and rear, creating a “box” that protects their entire body from predators. Formerly, the eastern ...