The top of the shell, or carapace, is dark in color and serrated along the back edge. The bottom shell, or plastron, is smaller than that of most other turtles and exposes a lot of flesh. Most people ...

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 olive ridley turtle is named for the generally greenish color of its skin and shell, or carapace. It is closely related to the Kemp’s ridley, with the primary distinction being that olive ...