Ever consider the question of whether a turtle can truly pull its head into its shell like a cartoon representation in a children’s tale? The answer is far from being merely yes or no. As mentioned in ...

A new partnership between the Wildlife Center of Virginia in Waynesboro and Bridgewater College is allowing students to gain real-life experience in animal rehabilitation.

A performance of Moss Anthology#5 for Buglisi Dance Theatre (left). Ruby, an endangered Burmese roofed turtle who lives at a turtle sanctuary in New Jersey (right). Hisae Aihara/Martin Broen Get the ...

I am going to send the kids off to school like the Aquarium of the Pacific recently returned a rescued sea turtle to the wild: a quiet walk to shore, a gentle push to the deep, and a quick wave of ...

A viral video shared to Twitter in July 2020 showed a scuttling lemon-hued turtle that was reportedly rescued by residents of a village in southeastern India. Snopes' readers asked us to verify and ...

The turtle neck retraction requires distinctive cervical features. Turtles are classified into two main categories, depending on whether they retract their heads by pulling them straight backwards, ...