Call this one Phantom of the Turtles. Or the Case of the Masked Reptile. But this story's no Halloween tale. It's all about an endangered species, three-dimensional printing and veterinary ingenuity.

A wounded turtle found in Muğla, southwestern Turkey, was treated and released back into the wild after a local craftsman repaired its damaged shell using natural resin. Gökçen Gökmen Bayram, head of ...

Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or treating them like clothing. Biology disagrees. A turtle shell is not an ...