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 way that turtles evolved into their modern form, with a shell fused to their skeleton and a beaklike face without teeth, has been described as “one of evolution’s most enduring puzzles”.
SCIENTISTS have identified fossil remains dating back 70 million years as belonging to the largest-ever turtle recorded in Europe. A set of bones were found by a hiker in the Pyrenees mountains in ...
A new species of ancient turtle that swam the shores of Europe millions of years ago may have been one of the largest sea turtles to have ever lived, scientists have said. Fossilised remains of ...
A 127 million-year-old fossil of a side-necked turtle, the first found to have lived in the UK, has been discovered on the Isle of Wight. The fossil has been nicknamed 'Burby' after enthusiast Steve ...
A fossil unearthed by a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) team is unlocking new information about the evolution of the most successful marine reptile family during the later part of the dinosaur age.
Two young brothers and their cousin made the discovery of a lifetime whilst hiking in North Dakota — a T-rex bone poking out ...
The kelp forests that hug the Pacific coastline are an underwater jungle. They’re a thicket of colossal algae intermixed with a pageant of life that includes snails, urchins, sea lions, sea otters, ...
The 150-million-year old fossil of a stegosaurus that has been named "Apex" by the paleontologist who discovered it could become one of the most expensive fossils ever sold this summer when it's ...