More specifically, LignoSat is made with honoki, a magnolia tree native to Japan whose wood was historically used to craft samurai sword sheaths. The origins of LignoSat (named after the Latin ...

The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...

“The eastern box turtle is a subspecies of the common box turtle and is native to forested regions of the eastern United States with some isolated populations in the Midwest,” according to ...

A video of a plastic straw stuck up a turtle's nose went viral on social media in 2015. Dr Pfaller said all types of plastic were a threat. "The errant plastic straw in a turtle's nose or the ...

The Tony and Grammy Award-winning actor suffered from a rare form of cancer known as metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve ...

Much like the insulation around the wires in electrical systems, glial cells form a membraneous sheath surrounding axons called myelin, thereby insulating the axon. This myelination, as it is ...

When is the Turtle Club reopening? Following my Oct. 16 chat with partner Mick Moore, the short answer was that he’s optimistic about reopening the restaurant Monday, Oct. 21. His family’s ...

Leatherbacks can dive to depths of 4,200 feet—deeper than any other turtle—and can stay down for up to 85 minutes. Leatherbacks have the widest global distribution of all reptile species ...

But they face lots of threats along the way – so we’re doing all we can to help them. Marine turtle population estimates (including those stated above) are based on the number of egg-laying females – ...

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Today, the mainland will start partly cloudy with some patchy mist or fog but it will turn increasingly bright later. Cloudy with the odd shower in Shetland. Dry with variable cloud in Orkney ...