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 ...

How turtles evolved their unique body shape has baffled scientists for years. They are unusual, even among other armoured animals such as the armadillo, in that their shell has changed very little ...

How the turtle shell evolved has puzzled scientists for years, but new research sheds light on how their hard shells were formed. Scientists say the ancient fossil skeleton of an extinct South African ...

A 220-million-year-old fossil found in southwestern China appears to have settled a long-simmering debate over reptile evolution: how did turtles get their shell? In a study published in the journal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or ...