Basically, a turtle's skeleton is inside out. And just like you can't take a skeleton out of a person, right, you can't take a turtle out of its shell either. But if you could, you'd probably be ...

Who knew a tortoise could feel through its shell? Find out why most of what we think we know about tortoise shells is ...

The way that turtles evolved into their modern form, with a shell fused to their skeleton and a beaklike face without teeth, has been described as “one of evolution’s most enduring puzzles”.

The tough-to-recognize creature was identified as an endangered loggerhead sea turtle, and it even had barnacles stuck to its tongue, according to the Galveston-based Gulf Center for Sea Turtle ...