The unearthing of a 220m-year-old fossil in China has solved the enduring mystery of how the turtle got its shell. The ancient remains are the only evidence fossil hunters have of a turtle that is ...

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or treating them like clothing. Biology disagrees. A turtle shell is not an ...

The long-standing mystery of how the turtle got its shell may have been solved by a Japanese study. The paper, published today in the journal Science, shows the outer shell of turtles develop from the ...