A satellite tracking device attached to Dilly Dally's shell will allow the center and the public to follow her journey.

Scientists mark turtles by filing a series of tiny V-shaped notches along the edges of their shells. Each turtle is notched in a unique pattern, allowing researchers to identify individual turtles and ...

of “normal perfect turtle shell to pancake.” All of the shells showed certain consistent patterns at various levels of compression. First, the shells cracked above the hip. Then, along the ...

The growth pattern on each turtle’s shell depends on its species. Box turtles, for example, grow their scute outward over time, like how humans grow fingernails. Desert tortoise scutes also grow ...

Instead, the small round shapes bearing a leaflike pattern were once the shells of baby turtles that lived during the time of dinosaurs. Scientists have nicknamed the turtle species “Turtwig ...

Despite having a shell with a vivid color pattern, painted turtle hatchlings are difficult for the average person to spot. “They’re very tiny, [the] size of about a nickel to a quarter ...