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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — ...

Turtles seem to be turning tables too. In a video going viral on the internet a group of turtles, which is called a bale, were seen to be having what seemed to be a meeting. The sight has not only ...

But the exact pattern was hard to tease out among the noise. Graduate student Lei Feng, the first author on the new study, developed a machine-learning algorithm to search the results for patterns and ...

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While the most famous wildlife in Austin is undoubtedly the colony of bats living under the Congress Avenue Bridge, paddling below that bridge is another conspicuous animal that deserves more ...

Two years ago, physicists at the University of Chicago were greeted with fireworks—atoms shooting out in jets—when they discovered a new form of quantum behavior. But the patterns underlying the ...