Remnants of DNA have been discovered in fossilized remains dating to 6 million years ago of a sea turtle closely related to today's Kemp's ridley and olive ridley turtles, marking one of the rare ...

Using the Turtle Compaction Index at Corral Bluffs, Dr. Petermann said, they found that many of the turtles had been buried in the ooze at the bottom of waterway, and over time under beds of silt ...

A fossilized turtle shell that sat unnoticed for decades in the collection at the University of Alabama actually belongs to a previously unknown species of ‘giant’ freshwater turtle that ...

These fossilized bones belonged to a roughly 4.5-meter-long plesiosaur that swam Earth's oceans 183 million years ago, during ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Paleontologists say a prehistoric turtle uncovered in a remote area of southern Utah is just the second ever — and the first in the United States ...