Six months ago, a striped mud turtle with a broken shell was found on the Gulf Coast of Florida, and thanks to a ...

The wild turtle was found in a local park with a broken shell by a Maryland Zoo employee Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously ...

MARATHON (CBSMiami/FKNB) – Elena, a 40-pound adolescent green sea turtle, has a Florida Keys dentist to thank for mending her fractured shell. Elena the endangered sea turtle has been cared for at the ...

Sheer aggression rather than pure muscle strength often gives hermit crabs living in broken shells the edge during a fight. Broken shells constrain crabs' activities because they are heavy and a large ...