One of the biggest problems for endangered sea turtles off the coast of Mexico is that they get tangled in fishing nets. But a group of conservationists has figured out a simple way to warn the turtles away from the nets, just by using water-activated LEDs.

While we await the Michael Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie with no small amount of anxiety, here's a take on TMNT that's sure to delight fans of the 1980s cartoon. Teenage Average Normal Turtles wouldn't make a half-bad webseries, although I'd try to keep these pet turtles away from rhinos and…

The Chinese soft-shelled turtle looks like someone glued the snout of a pig onto the face of a fish, with the texture of a scrotum for good measure. But its bizarre appearance pales in comparison to an even more bizarre, and newly discovered, habit: it urinates through its mouth.

Of the many unlikeable and inaccurate stereotypes maintained about animals in popular consciousness, among the most frustrating is what I term "old man turtle". This is the idea that turtles (by which I mean, all members of Testudines) are like decrepit, weak, bony little old men housed inside a box. It's not fair, and…

Let's say you're in a car accident and you break your leg. If you go to the hospital, your doctors will consult a list of around 18,000 alphanumeric medical-insurance codes that they can use to describe your injuries in bills that they send to insurers.

Just because your species is extinct doesn't mean your dress sense has to be, too. Dinosaurs can be dapper too! And let's be honest, if you're going to bother putting clothes on a dinosaur, they ought to be stylish.

This massive turtle, weighing 440 pounds, was pulled out of Hanoi's Ho Hoan Kiem, or Lake of the Returned Sword, by a few dozen people, including Special Forces soldiers, using three nets.

At the COEX Aquarium in Seoul, aquarium officials reenacted Aesop's race between the tortoise and the hare.

Due to advancements in satellite tracking, the incredible migratory routes of the leatherback turtle have finally been mapped in detail — including a straight 7,563km (4,699 mile) trip from Africa to South America.

Looks like the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is going in the rebooted Batman Begins direction. Because these rumored prototype turtle-heads really do look like the end result of rolling a turtle around in a can of ooze.