A photo recently posted on social media showing a sea turtle with its shell removed has led state officials to emphasize the proper avenues for reporting crimes against wildlife. The Maui News ...

The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...

They're also some of the only animals that can breathe with their butts. You see, inside a turtle shell is a very particular respiratory system. Wojakowski: You will see the lungs towards the top ...

Gastropods, such as sea snails, have one outer shell while bivalves, such as oysters, scallops and mussels, have two. As they grow, these animals use proteins and minerals to build their shells ...

Starting when he was a Ph.D. student in the 1990s, he has monitored the evolution of two common species of sea snails living ... In brief: they've grown thicker shells. The paper documents two ...

Around the Ocean in 80 Fish & Other Sea Life is a beautifully illustrated journey that introduces readers to various inhabitants of the five oceans. Each turn of the page reveals a new animal—with ...

HIRONO, Iwate Prefecture--Sea urchin are a culinary delicacy, but because their shells are often seen as too difficult or costly to recycle, they end up getting tossed out in bulk. But a local ...

The more acidic the ocean, the faster the shells dissolve. By using energy to repair or thicken their shells, animals' abilities to grow and reproduce may be negatively affected. While some animals ...