An artist's reconstruction shows the stem-turtle Pappochelys in this image released to Reuters on June 23, 2015. REUTERS/Rainer Schoch/Stuttgart Natural History Museum/Handout By Will Dunham ...

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About 240 million years ago in what is now Germany, a turtle that hadn’t yet evolved a shell developed something much less fortuitous: a kind of bone tumor that afflicted one of its hind legs. The ...

A 240-million-year-old case of bone cancer has turned up in a fossil of an extinct ancestor of turtles. Dating to the Triassic Period, the fossil is the oldest known example of this cancer in an ...

The discovery of Pappochelys, a Triassic-era reptile with a set of emerging turtle-like features, is helping scientists fill in an important evolutionary gap. Creationists have a tendency to declare ...

A young paleontologist from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven thinks he has solved one of the oldest mysteries in paleontology -- how did the turtle get its shell? The founder of ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, a shell-less turtle developed a malady in its bones. Now, 240 million years later, the Triassic period turtle is finally receiving a diagnosis: bone cancer. This is ...