Learn more about turtles and tortoises at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and sea turtles at the Smithsonian's Ocean Portal. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Textile Design: Turtle Motif ...

Lacking evidence of reproduction, some scientists speculated that the Kemp’s might be a “bastard turtle”—an infertile hybrid of other sea turtle species. In the early 1960s, however ...