An innocent trip to a petting zoo left one Texas dad utterly shell-shocked. “Well, that was enlightening… I didn’t know turtles made noises,” Vincent Powell captioned a now-viral Instagram post, ...

They’re box turtles at the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo in Monroe ... turtles is because they’re able to close up in their shell, they have a hinged plastron which allows them to ...

Although the shell is less sensitive than their skin, “turtles and tortoises actually have nerve endings in their shells and can feel when being touched,” the zoo said. Credit: Nashville Zoo ...

People often use the words turtle and tortoise interchangeably, but these reptiles have distinct differences: Turtle shells are typically more flattened ... and tortoises at the Smithsonian's National ...

An alligator snapping turtle named Maximus has died, the North Carolina Zoo said. He was at least 100 years old, according to ...

The Yangtze giant softshell turtle is now on the brink of extinction ... Only two known reptiles remain after Sunday's discovery, one in Suzhou Zoo in China and another in Hanoi's Xuân Khanh ...