This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — until a changing planet proved too much for even the largest ...

Many cultures tell fascinating tales about turtles. Several North American Native tribes speak of a great turtle floating in a primal sea, before there was any land. Here lived all the other animals ...

Most of us have probably heard the symbolic tale of the race between the slow and steady tortoise and the fast, but overconfident, hare. While the lessons at the heart of this fable may serve as good ...