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 ...

When U.S. officials wanted to keep people from littering, they enlisted a cartoon owl named "Woodsy," and to help prevent forest fires, they recruited a bear by the name of "Smokey." These days the ...

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