Oracle bones were often made from tortoise shells, as in this photograph, and from the shoulder blades of oxen. According to archaeologists, a fortune teller would carve a question into the bone ...

In cartoons, when a turtle is spooked, it retreats into and closes its shell. While used for comic effect, this imagery is based in fact — although not all turtles are capable of this protective feat.

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 ...

In cartoons, when a turtle is spooked, it retreats into and closes up its shell. While used for comic effect, this imagery is based in fact – although not all turtles are capable of this protective ...

PIEDMONT, Okla. (WKRC) - After months of searching, a tortoise owner found her beloved missing pet just 100 feet from where he was last seen. Cherrie Zaidi has been taking care of her two African ...

Tortoises: Tortoises are land dwellers. They primarily live on dry land and only go near water to drink or bathe. Shell Shape: Turtles typically have a flatter and more streamlined shell ...

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.” ...