A GREEN sea turtle weighing around 80 to 100 kilos was found dead in Barangay Tungasan, Olango Island, Lapu-Lapu City on ...

The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...

but it was "almost certainly" the last known female Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei). "It was a large female that obviously has great reproductive capacity. She could have ...

Florida softshell turtles are large turtles with skin covering their shell. They are dark brown to olive green colored and have bumps behind their head. Their webbed feet and tubular nostrils help ...

A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a ... 3 and 4 as its shell measured about 1 meter. Adult leatherbacks can grow as large as nearly 2 meters long.

Union of bony fractures in turtles can take as long as ... Chelonians have a great ability to repair shell injuries and deficits, including very large wounds. An antibiotic course should be ...

What’s in a name? When it comes to sea turtles, it turns out, a pretty distinguishing trait. “The animal kingdom is filled ...