Paleontologists have uncovered fossils of a giant turtle species with some striking features, such as its shape, that lived tens of millions of years ago in South America. The research team found the ...

These leathery turtles spend most of their lives buried motionless in river mud, but burst into action to catch their unsuspecting prey. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The biggest turtle ever described wasn’t an ancestor of today’s leatherback turtles or any other living sea turtles. But it looks like there are some things about being a giant, skin-shelled sea ...

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An ancient species that has endured for over a century now faces imminent extinction. The Yangtze giant softshell turtle, regarded as the largest freshwater turtle on Earth, has only two known ...