All eyes at the reptile club are on this turtle when it starts shaking its goods. Banana Flamingo / YouTube Turtles aren't exactly the type of animal you would commonly associate with dancing.

It had many of the qualities of the turtles we know and love today: a boxy body, plodding legs, a long neck topped by a small, round head. It was only missing one thing: a shell. Thanks to the ...

Last November, researchers in China uncovered a 220-million-year-old fossil that had a complete plastron – the portion of the shell on the turtle’s underside – but an incomplete carapace.

How the turtle shell evolved has puzzled scientists for years, but new research sheds light on how their hard shells were formed. Scientists say the ancient fossil skeleton of an extinct South ...