Having recently spent several quiet days on nearly empty beaches along the New Jersey shore, I was taken by the beauty of what had to be millions of broken shells and fragments scattered along the ...

This year, my family decided to celebrate Thanksgiving a little differently, at the beautiful and mild Outer Banks of North Carolina. As an avid beach glass and sea shell collector, I was anxious to ...

This amazing footage shows how a turtle is treated for a shell injury. After being struck by a vehicle in Costa Rica, Filburth was left with a crack in his shell. Clever vets used special metal ...

When this turtle was found barely moving, the cause was immediately clear: its shell had been shattered by a massive impact. Emergency treatment was the only hope. Veterinary teams worked quickly to ...

Dr. Universe: Why can’t sea turtles pull back into their shell? I was at the St. Louis Zoo, and they said tortoises and other turtles can pull back into their shells. – Tyler, 7, Missouri There are ...