Eleven-year-old Touren Pope was hunting for rocks in southwest Wyoming when he came across the fossil of a soft-shelled ...
Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or ...
WHITE SALMON, Klickitat County — In ponds close by the Columbia River Gorge, Washington state biologists have gone to extraordinary lengths to revive endangered populations of western pond turtles.