Turtles are one of the only land animals on the planet with this feature. They're also some of the only animals that can breathe with their butts. You see, inside a turtle shell is a very ...

In a river valley of Tibet, a pointy creature with a “ribbed” shell ... animals and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Petraeomastus limenghuai, or Meng-Hua Li’s land ...

Hermit crabs are omnivorous scavengers, eating microscopic mussels and clams, bits of dead animals ... before acquiring a shell of their own and coming back to land. Hermit crabs don’t breed ...

Most turtles live in freshwater ponds, lakes or rivers. Others live in the ocean or on land. Some even live in forests or the ...

What do nine Hawaiian snails have in common with the Texas longhorn, the Florida panther and the California grizzly bear?

The Shell Factory closed months ago. But animal lovers can still visit some of the North Fort Myers attraction’s most popular animals here in Southwest Florida. The Holstein steer Moo loves ...

Land animals and plants usually decomposed or were eaten, and mainly the hard parts -- teeth, bones, shells, or wood -- were preserved. Fossils can be formed in several ways. Buried bone and shell ...