2 A tortoise by any other name A turtle refers to any reptile with a shell, so all tortoises are technically turtles, too. The main difference is that tortoises live only on land, while turtles ...

Open wounds should be protected and mobile shell areas stabilized. If injuries are confined to the upper carapace only, and there is no evidence of head trauma, then the turtle can be placed into ...

The goals of shell repair are to restore sufficient ... of the cranial carapace edge is missing, the turtle may not be able to retract its head for safety). Marginal carapacial wounds that result ...

According to The Turtle Hospital, a nonprofit organization, the condition is a deformity to a turtle's shell that causes it ... leading to him float with a head down and tail up posture," says ...

It is named not for the color of its shell, which is normally ... turtles are among the largest sea turtles in the world. Their proportionally small head, which is nonretractable, extends from ...

Olive and Kemp’s ridleys are the smallest of the sea turtles, weighing up to 100 pounds and reaching only about 2 feet in shell length. The olive ridley has a slightly smaller head and smaller s ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Ethnobiology Letters Vol. 8, No. 1, 2017 Identifying Turtle Shell Rattles in the ... Identifying Turtle Shell Rattles in the Archaeological Record of ...

The upper shell is olive to dark brown; the lower shell is hinged, front and back, and varies from yellow to cream colored. Sonoyta mud turtles have mottled patterns on their limbs, head, and neck.

This time around, his focus is on motoring, Mario Kart style. His Turtle Shell Racers are ripped right out of the Mario Kart series of games, and are built in the form of the multi-colored turtle ...