This softshell turtle has a leathery, round shell and ranges from a light brown to dark brown color. The exterior is covered in white spots, while the skin features black spots.

Never take a wild turtle home with you. Turtle species native to Delaware are prohibited from being owned as pets, according ...

She’s right. The best part of the exhibit is the live animals. The snake-necked turtle’s neck grows to over half the size of ...

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

Dear Dr. John, I have two turtles, ages 55 and 35. They have been healthy for almost their entire lives. I’ve never had to take them to the vet but recently, one of them developed a hole in ...

A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.

The shell of an adult hawksbill sea turtle consists of about a dozen overlapping scales colored with streaks of gold, brown, orange, and red. Hawksbills have long been hunted for their shells ...

Funny and vibrant, ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ is an easy shell April O’Neil (Ayo Edebiri), left, addresses Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo in “Teenage ...

Repair of injured turtle shells can be difficult and time-consuming. This article describes how to manage the freshwater turtle in this phase of healing and how to keep fracture sites 'water-free'.

Get the look: Weber says tortoise shell designs work best when created using gel polish. To do that, you’ll need an at-home gel lamp, like the Gelish Pro 45 Mini LED Light ($50). 4.

The latest TMNT film happens to have a pretty stacked voice cast attached to it, as the Ninja Turtles are voiced by Micah Abbey, Shannon Brown Jr., Nicholas Cantu, and Brady Noon.

Some have brown shells, while others have olive-brown shells with decorative yellow markings. Although box turtles are like tortoises in terrestrial habits and overall appearance, they are members ...