“As soon as those two halves came together, like puzzle pieces, you knew it,” said Ted Daeschler, PhD, associate curator of vertebrate zoology and vice president for collections at the Academy of ...

In South Africa, fossil turtles left trails near ancient shores. The Monte Cònero marks look like they came from swimmers, not walkers. That points strongly to sea turtles. The numbers add weight. On ...

Scientists have identified a 50-million-year-old fossil sea turtle in northern Syria, marking the country’s first formally described fossil vertebrate species. The discovery, detailed inPapers in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JACKSONVILLE — A 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle fossil, discovered by an Alabama family on a fishing trip, has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's rendering of Ueloca colemanorum exhibiting the deep-diving behavior characteristic of leatherback sea turtles. (Photo ...

For years, the Coleman family's fishing trips on the Alabama Gulf Coast were routine. But in 2021, their outing near a riverbank led to an odd find: the shell of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea ...

BOZEMAN – Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an apparently fate-tempting plea. “I kept joking through that whole ...

CASPER, Wyo. (WKRC) - An 11-year-old boy discovered a nearly complete fossilized turtle during a rock-hunting trip in southwest Wyoming, officials with Bureau of Land Management said. Touren Pope was ...

Turtles that crushed hard-shelled prey like clams and snails were reported to be more than five times more likely to survive the mass extinction that ended the age of dinosaurs 66 million years ago, ...

CASPER — Touren Pope took a few days off school the second week of February, but this was not just some regular family vacation. Pope headed up to Casper from Elko, Nevada, on Monday to provide a ...

JACKSONVILLE — A 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle fossil, discovered by an Alabama family on a fishing trip, has provided groundbreaking insights thanks to research conducted in part by Dr.