PHOENIX (FOX 10) --The Phoenix Herpetological Society is home to hundreds of turtles of all different shapes and sizes, but it's the ones that come in with broken shells that need a little extra love.

Now, similar 3D technology is being used to scan the loggerhead. She has gone from 90 to 200 pounds, but she still has the same 3D-printed brace that goes on her shell made. Aquarist Kaelie Spencer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A red-eared slider turtle named Peanut in honor of her figure-eight-shaped shell celebrated her 41st birthday in Missouri. Photo ...

Unique among Earth’s creatures, turtles are the only animals to form a shell on the outside of their bodies through a fusion of modified ribs, vertebrae and shoulder girdle bones. The turtle shell is ...

KIRKWOOD, Mo. (KWCH) - Peanut the Turtle, a symbol against litter for 40 years, is celebrating her 41st birthday. Unlike the famous Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Peanut’s distinctive figure-eight ...

Scientists say the ancient fossil skeleton of an extinct South African reptile has helped bridge a 30 to 55-million-year gap. This ancestor of the modern turtle, Eunotosaurus, is thought to be around ...

On a warm morning in Virginia, a wildlife researcher walks slowly through a patchwork of forest and farmland, eyes scanning the ground for something most people would never notice. Somewhere under the ...