The turtle's shell provides it with a formidable defence and one that is unique in the animal world. No other animal has a structure quite like it, and the bizarre nature of the turtle's anatomy also ...

The unearthing of a 220m-year-old fossil in China has solved the enduring mystery of how the turtle got its shell. The ancient remains are the only evidence fossil hunters have of a turtle that is ...

How did the turtle get its shell? It’s a question so obvious a schoolchild can ask it, but for more than a century, consensus has eluded the paleontologists and evolutionary biologists who study the ...