The shells of turtles, tortoises, and sea turtles show a remarkable connection to our 20th-century nuclear history. This astounding revelation comes to light in a new study, which casts an enduring ...
Sea turtles have an average lifespan of 20 to 30 years. During that timeframe, they experience changes in ocean chemistry, ...
A team of paleontologists studying the fossilized shell of a sea turtle from the Miocene Epoch found something surprising and perhaps impossible: preserved bone cells that they believe may contain ...
Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice cores—are now being repurposed to help us better understand the lives of modern ...
Some success is being seen in the second month of what could be a years-long effort to eradicate invasive red-eared slider turtles and bullfrogs from the Cache Creek Nature Preserve. The effort began ...
A continuing eradication effort of bullfrogs and red-eared slider turtles at the Cache Creek Nature Preserve may be having an effect. While it’s still too soon to know how successful the removal ...