A newly discovered early turtle fossil from 228 million years ago is missing something crucial: its shell. But in the long, intriguing tale of turtle evolution, turtles didn't always have it all -- ...

It's a long-held idea that turtles can tuck their heads into their shells when threatened. But is it true? And is this protective trick why turtles the world over have shells today? The answer is that ...

The Ninja Turtles’ other creator, Peter Laird, is notably absent from the credits. IDW billed the first Last Ronin story as a reunion of sorts, the first addition to the “Eastman and Laird’s Teenage ...

Scientists from the UAB and Iowa State University have generated the genome assemblies of two hidden-neck turtles, unpublished until now. The results, which revealed a new three-dimensional structure ...

Are box turtles in worse shape than herpetologists thought? University of Toledo researchers raise the question in new research published in the journal Ecology and Evolution. Analyzing years of field ...

An international research team led by Dr. Gabriel S. Ferreira from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen has described a new species of giant ...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin 2 is almost here, and it's shaping up to be one of the biggest new TMNT comics in years. It's the highly anticipated sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ...