In cartoons, when a turtle is spooked, it retreats into and closes up its shell. While used for comic effect, this imagery is ...

In a recent paper published in the journal Genome Research, experts described the chromatin arrangement in the genomes of two ...

A study described the three-dimensional architecture of turtle genomes, which fold in a configuration unlike any other animal observed so far.

“Chromosome folding remains a bit of a black box. We’ve learned a lot about it ... The current study concerned the spiny ...

BOSTON - In September, the Department of Justice charged Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a 20-year-old Pakistani citizen living in ...

Jonathan Novack/Shutterstock.com One of northern Georgia’s common turtles is the painted ... and its neck is quite long for its small size. Eastern box turtles can have varying yellow and orange ...

In their long strings of nucleotides, DNA molecules hold massive troves of genetic data providing instructions for how living organisms ...

"If I had room here, I would have thousands of turtles." Rodrigues walks over to an outdoor pen filled with shrubs and plants. Inside are box turtles, each with a dark shell splashed with bright ...

Okàn Savanna, a rare high-quality black oak savanna, is the newest addition to preserved natural areas in the greater Chicago area.