Basically, a turtle's skeleton is inside out. And just like you can't take a skeleton out of a person, right, you can't take a turtle out of its shell either. But if you could, you'd probably be ...

As the turtle grows, so does its shell. The scutes on its shell peel away to make room for bigger ones. 5 Keep your flippers inside the shell at all times Not all turtles can hide their heads ...

Open wounds should be protected and mobile shell areas stabilized. If injuries are confined to the upper carapace only, and there is no evidence of head trauma, then the turtle can be placed into ...

In a previous column, the author discussed the overall management of turtle shell injuries ... the turtle may not be able to retract its head for safety). Marginal carapacial wounds that result ...

The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical ... Their proportionally small head, which is nonretractable, extends from a heart ...

The baby turtles appeared to be communicating with each other while still inside their shells ... The first hatchlings to break free of their shell have a head start in life, but they find ...

Olive and Kemp’s ridleys are the smallest of the sea turtles, weighing up to 100 pounds and reaching only about 2 feet in shell length. The olive ridley has a slightly smaller head and smaller s ...

Draw the body of your turtle onto the cardboard. Give it a pointy tail and four flippers (see the example below). Use glue to stick the shell to a body. Then, glue a pom pom head onto your turtle.