The origin of turtles has always been a bit of a puzzle for scientists who study the evolution of animals. To this day, where ...

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Did you know that sea turtle hatchlings instinctively travel from their nests to the ocean? In a process called “sea finding, ...

Nearly every species of sea turtle is endangered, some of them at critical levels. That’s a remarkable statement, considering they’ve roamed the Earth’s waters and beaches for more than 100 million ...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ (TMNT) fifth member has stirred up controversy and, surprise surprise, it’s because she’s LGBTQ+ Jennika was first introduced in the TMNT comics in 2015. She started off ...

Dashiell Reynaldo is a writer for Dualshockers and a college student studying game design. For years, he has sought ways to contribute to the current gaming zeitgeist with his writings, videos, and ...

There’s a global pandemic happening on a scale that hasn’t been seen in roughly a century. So we decided it would be the perfect time to talk about turtle sex. Not turtles having sex, which is ...

In many turtle species, temperature determines the sex of hatchlings — a biological process known as temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD). Rather than genetics alone deciding whether a sea ...

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 ...

Strange marks on Hawaiian green sea turtles were thought to be graffiti. Scientists actually mark the turtles for tracking.