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Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Here’s something you might not know about tortoises: They have nerve endings in their shells, ...

The shells of chelonians—think turtles, tortoises, and sea turtles—grow in layers, keeping a time-stamped record of environmental conditions. Uranium has shown up in the layers of turtles’ and ...

Most of us have probably heard the symbolic tale of the race between the slow and steady tortoise and the fast, but overconfident, hare. While the lessons at the heart of this fable may serve as good ...

What do you think of when you hear the word “tortoise”? The giant tortoises that lumber along like tanks over the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean? The gopher ...

ABOUT THEIR STORIES WHEN THEY RETURN. I FOUND OUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TURTLE AND A TORTOISE. CHECK IT OUT. WE ARE BACK WITH THE SCIENCE OF IT. I AM JOINED BY HANNAH AT THE ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER.

Turtles and tortoises are both reptiles with shells, but they're not exactly the same. So how can you tell them apart? What's the difference between a turtle and a tortoise? "All tortoises are turtles ...

Here’s something you might not know about tortoises: They have nerve endings in their shells, which means they can feel it when you pet them. If you don’t believe it, watch Redfoot wiggle around when ...