While rockhounding with family, 11-year-old Touren Pope stumbled upon a remarkably preserved 48-million-year-old turtle shell ...

Rock Springs, Wyo. - Last fall, a routine day of rockhounding on Bureau of Land Management–managed public land in southwest ...

The DNA comes from the remains of a turtle shell first uncovered in 2015 in the Chagres Formation on Panama’s Caribbean coast. It represents the oldest known fossil evidence of Lepidochelys turtles.

A team of paleontologists studying the fossilized shell of a sea turtle from the Miocene Epoch found something surprising and perhaps impossible: preserved bone cells that they believe may contain ...

Paleontologists discover possible DNA remains in fossil turtle that lived 6 million years ago in Panama, where continents collide Leila Nilipour Currently, only seven species of sea turtles exist.

A newly discovered early turtle fossil from 228 million years ago is missing something crucial: its shell. But in the long, intriguing tale of turtle evolution, turtles didn't always have it all -- ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of prehistoric turtle from what was once a lush forest in Central Australia, after ...

An environmental scientist at Harrisburg University recently found the shell of an extinct, previously unknown turtle species at a fossil site in Tennessee. The discovery of the painted turtle – which ...

This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — until a changing planet proved too much for even the largest ...