Repair of injured turtle shells can be difficult and time-consuming. This article describes how to manage the freshwater turtle in this phase of healing and how to keep fracture sites 'water-free'.

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or treating them like clothing. Biology disagrees. A turtle shell is not an ...

Rich Reichmuth helps clean sea turtle shell at rehabilitation center in Georgia Fox News chief meteorologist Rick Reichmuth learns about treatment received for sea turtles at the rehabilitation center ...