What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that lumber along like tanks over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean? The gopher ...
Kaitlen Daigle and Lauren Phinney interview Teresa O’Donnell, president of the San Diego Turtle & Tortoise Society, about the ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Here’s something you might not know about tortoises: They have nerve endings in their shells, ...
Attention reptile-lovers, what do you call an animal that lives in a shell made of bone and keratin, shuffles along at a slow pace and lives on land? Any guesses? You may have off-handedly answered ...
A 260 million-year-old fossil has been determined to be the oldest ancestor of turtles found to date, revealing something about the reptile's mysterious past. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, ...