so that your pet turtle can enjoy propelling themselves through the water. While turtles rubbed shoulders with the dinosaurs in the Triassic Age, they managed to survive while the dinos died out.

The Triassic period, spanning 252 to 201 million years ago, was crucial for the evolution of terrestrial tetrapods, including early dinosaurs, mammalian ancestors, and crocodile relatives.

The Triassic period stands out in Earth’s history as the time when dinosaurs first evolved. It was followed by the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods – at the end of the latter, the dinosaurs ...

This defining feature is universal among all turtle species ... during the Late Triassic. So, they’re a bit younger than dinosaurs as a group. Turtles diverged from a group called Archosauromorpha.

The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...