The holiday season can be a stressful time for people, with travel, budgets, families and sky high expectations. That’s why it’s important to take a moment and breathe. And in case you can’t remember ...

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A midland painted turtle. Unlike its land cousin the box turtle, painted turtles do not have a hinged bottom shell that closes ...

Turtles are famous for their shells, but this feature is far more than a protective covering. A turtle’s shell is actually fused to its skeleton, meaning its ribs and spine became part of a living ...

Turtles are such a familiar sight to most north-central Texas and southwestern Oklahoma residents that we think little about these unique and adaptable animals. Turtles have been present in their ...

A midland painted turtle. Unlike its land cousin the box turtle, painted turtles do not have a hinged bottom shell that closes when the head is pulled in. © Jim ...