Fishing duo Cole & Jay discover a softshell turtle hiding in a backyard pond.

Fishing duo Cole & Jay rescue a giant softshell turtle in a backyard pond.

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or ...

Recovery of this softshell turtle species now requires working with a global population of only two or possibly three known individuals, though the exact number remains uncertain due to ongoing ...

Lucknow: Amethi police on Friday busted a wildlife trafficking racket involved in the illegal transportation of rare and ...

A total of 945 freshwater turtles belonging to seven species have been recorded during a survey along the River Brahmaputra in the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve (KNPTR), a Park official ...

“It blew all of our minds," his mother said of the prehistoric find ...

Touren Pope was rockhounding in the Greater Green River Basin when he found a remarkable foot-long fossil. It turned out to be the shell of a ...

Last year, Touren Pope made the discovery of a lifetime—and he’s not even a teenager yet. The 11-year-old Nevada native was ...

The spiny softshell turtle is rarely seen in the wild. It burrows its round, speckled shell and long neck under sand, with just its snorkel-like nose peeking out. At the Bays Mountain Park and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shell integration typically involves 50 to 60 individual bones fusing into a permanent structural cage. The carapace creates a ...

Carleton University prof Grégory Bulté found that turtles settled down for winter rest in Opinicon Lake had been attacked by predators.