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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Built like a tank and often covered in camouflaging algae, these prehistoric-looking freshwater turtles are known for their spiked shell, large claws and strong, beaked jaws. Alligator snappers spend ...