Archaeologists were stunned to find the grave so littered with chelonian remains, most of which belonged to the Euphrates soft-shelled turtle. Turtles were not normally part of the local diet ...

Scientists have developed and validated a first-of-its-kind, portable environmental DNA (eDNA) test to help detect the ...

These include soft-shelled turtles, aquatic turtles ... leatherback turtle are seven bony plates called keels. These run from the turtle’s head to its rump and give the impression that the ...

The Pacific leatherback population has declined by 90 percent over the past 40 years, mostly because longline and gillnet fishing for tuna and swordfish entangles and drowns these large, ancient, soft ...