The passengers in the row ahead were sure to have listened with avid interest. They were officers with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

the bony upper shell of a turtle. It’s really rare to find hatchlings of fossil turtles in general, as the bones in their shells are so thin they can be easily destroyed,” he commented ...

Not only that, the couple had a trophy of their own, the skull of a green sea turtle, and it was with them ... jacket in their carry-on luggage. Those bones belonged to a federally listed ...

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People often use the words turtle and tortoise interchangeably, but these reptiles have distinct differences: Turtle shells are typically more flattened and not as deeply domed as tortoise shells, but ...

Oracle bones like this one are about 3500 years old. They proved the existence of the Shang dynasty. Most of the bones were discovered in the Shang city of Yinxu, near modern-day Anyang.