These leathery turtles spend most of their lives buried motionless in river mud, but burst into action to catch their ...

DERA GHAZI KHAN: A freshwater river turtle was rescued and released into Taunsa Barrage. The Indian softshell turtle ...

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), the Yangtze giant softshell turtle is critically endangered. This is the most threatened conservation ...

Why it's awesome: Cantor's giant softshell turtles — named in honor of Danish zoologist Theodore Edward Cantor — spend 95% of their lives completely motionless, buried under mud or sand in ...

The most Canadian animal? It’s not the beaver that marks the nickel, the moose that pervades souvenir shops across the country, or the loon that gave the one-dollar “loonie” its name.

What is the “most Canadian” animal? Spoiler: it’s not the beaver or the moose. Researchers have unveiled the most ...

In fact, the spiny softshell turtle is Canada's most distinct animal in evolutionary terms, researchers from Simon Fraser University show in a first-of-its-kind study. Arne Mooers, a biodiversity ...

A young pair of spiny softshell turtles are seen in an undated handout photo. A first-of-its-kind study from researchers at Simon Fraser University says the turtle is Canada's most distinct animal ...

In a recent paper published in the journal Genome Research, experts described the chromatin arrangement in the genomes of two ...