• Where is the best place to find dinosaur fossils?
  In a museum! Lots have wonderful collections of fossil bones. But the ...

• What’s the difference between a tortoise and a terrapin?
  Difficult to tell at first, because tortoises and terrapins are both ...

• So what is a turtle?
  Some people use the word "turtle" to include tortoises and terrapins. ...

• How many tortoises and terrapins are there?
  There are 240 different kinds of tortoises, terrapins, and turtles to ...

• How is the shell joined to the tortoise?
  A tortoise's armor is made of bone overlaid with horn. The bones are ...

• How do tortoises breathe?
  Because their bodies are enclosed in a bony box, tortoises can't ...

• What drove many tortoises to extinction?
  Human beings, unfortunately. The big members of the tortoise family ...

• Which Greek poet was killed by a tortoise?
  The poet Aeschylus is supposed to have been killed by a tortoise in ...

• Why did the hawksbill turtle need protecting?
  Tortoiseshell is the horny outer layer of the hawksbill turtle's ...

• How did a tortoise outrun a hare?
  The ancient story of the hare and the tortoise tells how these two ...