Sea turtles are the oceans’ wanderers. They live for up to a hundred years, and meander hundreds of thousands of miles. The ...

Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice cores—are now being repurposed to help us better understand the lives of modern ...

Sea turtle shells record life history layer by layer over many years, clearly revealing diet, stress, movement, and ocean changes.

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or treating them like clothing. Biology disagrees. A turtle shell is not an ...