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Tortoise Shells are Not Just for Protection. The Shells are Connected Directly to the Tortoise’s Nervous System. These Nerves Give the Shell the Ability to Transmit Pleasure and Pain Sensations.

The shell is widely regarded as the most distinctive feature of a turtle’s body. Most of our readers’ questions concern the shell’s origins and functions. In today’s article, we’ll examine whether turtles can feel their shells and how they got them. But did you know tortoises have feelings in their shells? Tortoise shells are used […]

Tortoise Shells are Not Just for Protection. The Shells are Connected Directly to the Tortoise’s Nervous System. These Nerves Give the Shell the Ability to Transmit Pleasure and Pain Sensations. Read More »

If you remove a box turtle from the wild and don’t put them back in the location you found them they will most likely die looking for their home

Box Turtle Conservation Box turtles have unfortunate seen better days in the wild. Various factors, most of them human-related such as exports for the pet trade and loss of habitat is causing the population of box turtles to dwindle. Because of this, it’s important to know about the threat and what we can do to

If you remove a box turtle from the wild and don’t put them back in the location you found them they will most likely die looking for their home Read More »

After “the world’s largest beach clean-up” at Mumbai’s Versova beach, Olive Ridley turtles returned to lay eggs for the first time in 20 years.

Baby Turtles Return in Mumbai After ‘Largest Beach Clean-Up’ in History More than 80 Olive Ridley baby turtles have been spotted waddling across the sand of Versova Beach in Mumbai to get to the Arabian Sea over the past week, the Guardian reports. It had been decades since the turtles were last seen on the

After “the world’s largest beach clean-up” at Mumbai’s Versova beach, Olive Ridley turtles returned to lay eggs for the first time in 20 years. Read More »