Scuba Diving Snorkeling at Great Barrier Reef Cairns Port Douglas (Sea Turtle, Giant Clam, Hard Cora, Shark, School of Fish, Soft Coral, Great Visibility, Pufferfish)© Kitjapat Film/Shutterstock.com ...

MIAMI — Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice cores—are now being repurposed to better understand the lives of modern ...

A sea turtle’s shell is living bone fused directly to its spine and ribs. It is not a detachable shield or an external case, as certain quirky cartoons have shown. The shell grows with the turtle, ...

When we picture sea turtles in the wild, it’s easy to envision them as armored warriors – their hard, resilient shells serving as near-impenetrable shields against oceanic threats like sharks. These ...

The sea creature arrived at San Diego's Birch Aquarium in 2014 A 3D-printed brace shell has helped one lucky loggerhead sea turtle in California get a clean bill of health. The sea creature arrived at ...

The shells of chelonians—think turtles, tortoises, and sea turtles—grow in layers, keeping a time-stamped record of environmental conditions. Uranium has shown up in the layers of turtles’ and ...

Strange marks on Hawaiian green sea turtles were thought to be graffiti. Scientists actually mark the turtles for tracking.

On a spring day in 1978, a fisherman caught a tiger shark in the lagoon surrounding Enewetak Atoll, part of the Marshall Islands in the north Pacific. That shark, along with the remains of a green sea ...

Etchings on turtle shells led to a massive citizen science project that has resulted in even more protections for the ...