The Truth About What’s Inside a Turtle Shell

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or ...
Yahoo

Sea turtle covered in 1½ pounds of barnacles 'on the way to recovery'

A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.
Newsweek

Mystery Disease Is Making Sea Turtle Shells Melt Exposing Bone Beneath

Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital has seen a surge of green sea turtles needing treatment for a mysterious disease that appears to "melt" their shells, causing lesions and open wounds on their shells ...
KHON2

Hawaiian green sea turtles released for World Turtle Day Shell-ebration

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Shell-ebrate good times. Come on! Let’s Shell-ebrate. Sea Life Park Hawaiʻi, Mālama i nā honu and 808 Cleanups hosted a World Turtle Shell-ebration for World Turtle Day on Monday, ...

Do Sea Turtles Actually Feel It When You Touch Their Shells?

A sea turtle’s shell is living bone fused directly to its spine and ribs. It is not a detachable shield or an external case, ...
Ars Technica

Green sea turtle gets relief from “bubble butt” syndrome thanks to 3D printing

Charlotte, a green sea turtle, was hit by a boat back in 2008. This left it with an affliction colloquially referred to as the “bubble butt,” a kind of floating syndrome that makes it impossible for a ...
Orange County Register

Green sea turtle rehabbed by Aquarium of the Pacific released into the wild

The green sea turtle waddled his way into the San Gabriel River in Seal Beach, set free into the ocean. For about six months, the sea turtle has been cared for by a team at the Aquarium of the Pacific ...