Box turtle at Mississippi Aquarium gets custom 3D-printed wheelchair

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) — A Gulf Coast box turtle at the Mississippi Aquarium is using a custom 3-D-printed wheelchair after ...
WGLT

Box turtles are back for the summer. Here’s how to help them survive another year

Ornate box turtles and their kin face steep challenges in today’s world, but people can help out by raising the deck height ...
Miami Herald

Sea turtles’ lives and misfortunes are mapped on their backs

As measures to protect sea turtles ebb and flow, the turtle’s “lost years” spent out at sea after they hatch on beaches along Florida and around the tropics have remained a tricky factor in ...
AOL

Inside the Life of the 2,000-Pound Leatherback Sea Turtle

Leatherback sea turtles start life the same size as other sea turtles. As they age, however, they grow progressively larger. These giants of the reptile world are relics from the Late Triassic and the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Turtles May Have Been Tasty Snacks for Neanderthals 125,000 Years Ago. But Their Shells Were Probably the Real Prize

This illustration shows the size difference between a European pond turtle and the foot of a straight-tusked elephant. Nicole Viehofer / Monrepos (Leiza) While living in central Europe roughly 125,000 ...
animalsaroundtheglobe

Understanding The Largest Known Prehistoric Turtle From 80 Million Years Ago

A man beside the skeleton of archelon. Screenshot from Archelon: The Largest Turtle Ever To Have Lived Source: YouTube Channel: Earth 2.0 Full skeleton of Archelon the prehistoric turtle. Screenshot ...
Phys.org

Neanderthals in Central Europe hunted pond turtles—not for food, but likely for their shells

Neanderthals hunted European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) in Central Europe, though probably not for food. The careful cleaning of carapace elements at Neumark-Nord indicates that shells were ...
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Watch what happens when a turtle retreats into its shell under attack

Turtles evolved one of the most unique defensive systems in the animal kingdom, fusing their ribs and spine into a rigid shell that acts as living armor. When threatened, they retract vulnerable body ...
animalsaroundtheglobe

8 Amazing Secrets About Sea Turtles and Their Ancient Survival Skills

Sea turtles are often referred to as living fossils, having roamed the Earth’s oceans for more than 100 million years. With their existence tracing back to the era of dinosaurs, these ancient mariners ...
Phys.org

Sea turtle shells reveal hidden records of ocean change

Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice cores—are now being repurposed to help us better understand the lives of modern ...
KMBC Kansas City

Kansas City Zoo's sea turtle 'Tortellini' gets custom harness to help with buoyancy after shell injuries

Today is *** day for celebrating. We are here at Sobella Aquarium at the Kansas City Zoo and Aquarium, and we are all about Tortellini today. Tortellini just got *** new harness put on her, um, and it ...