The mad scientists at Jurassic Park (later Jurassic World) were no strangers to hybrid organisms. Their earliest dinosaurs were necessarily genetic mashups, using modern amphibian DNA to fill in the ...

Two fossilized specimens, each less than 2.5 inches in length, were originally thought to be plants. Now, scientists say they are preserved hatchling turtles. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, ...

The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks is teaming up with Missouri State University researchers to launch alligator snapping turtles into state waters in autumn of this year. Juvenile alligator ...

Long ago, gigantic marine turtles swam the Earth's seas. Until recently, these prehistoric giants, reaching lengths of over 3 meters (10 feet) from head to tail, had been thought to be found only in ...

SANTA ROSA, California -- In Northern California, there's a mystery unfolding about a creature that's been spotted at the bottom of a popular lake. Carlos Rubio was with his son at Lake Ralphine in ...

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 — found to still have a clutch of ...

Frazier, John G. 2003. "Prehistoric and ancient historic interactions between humans and marine turtles." In The Biology of Sea Turtles. Lutz, P., Musick, J., and ...