These leathery turtles spend most of their lives buried motionless in river mud, but burst into action to catch their ...

Turtles are fascinating creatures because they can live as long as humans, sometimes even longer. Their slow-moving ...

Water pollution caused by toxic industrial discharges into some of the turtle's home waterways is causing extensive deformities, shell ulcerations and widespread mortality in the mollusks that the ...

Turtles are fascinating creatures because they ... and swamps with a muddy or sandy floor where they can burrow and look for mollusks and invertebrates. This species is rare in Texas and is ...

Because filter-feeding bivalves and mollusks take all their nutrients from filtering seawater, they are an excellent choice for a sustainable form of aquaculture that is helping to take pressure ...

other mollusks, horseshoe crabs and other crabs. Their powerful jaws are designed to crush their prey. Adult loggerhead turtles typically weigh 135 kilograms, and larger specimens can weigh up to ...