Today we celebrate World Turtle Day, a special day dedicated not only to showing our love for these wonderful creatures, but also protecting them and keeping their home clean to make sure they don ...

One of them developed a hole in their carapace on the underside. I made some calls but not many vets treat turtles.

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 ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: A turtle's shell is as much a part of its body as our rib cage is of ours. In fact, it is their rib cage, and their spine, and their vertebrae ...

Unlike other sea turtles, these gentle giants lack a hard shell, instead sporting a flexible ... rarely interacting with others of their kind outside of mating. Unlike more social species ...

Turtles are reptiles of the order Chelonii or Testudines characterized by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield. The earliest known turtles date ...

Repair of injured turtle shells can be difficult and time-consuming. This article describes how to manage the freshwater turtle in this phase of healing and how to keep fracture sites 'water-free'.

In a previous column, the author discussed the overall management of turtle shell injuries. This column continues by describing basic techniques for repairing and stabilizing fractured turtle shells.