The world's oldest fossil sea turtle known to date has been found by scientists. The fossilized reptile is at least 120 million years old -- which makes it about 25 million years older than the ...

The turtle that laid the egg may have had a shell as long as a person is tall, roaming the Earth alongside the dinosaurs. A fossilized egg found in China revealed a surprise inside: the baby of a ...

A turtle egg from the time of the dinosaurs was discovered in China with a rare treat for scientists inside—an intact embryo.

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 ...

The trio of scientists were looking for sutures - lines where the bones knitted together - that would signify the roughly 2-foot-by-3-foot domed rock was indeed an ancient fossilized turtle.

Researchers focused on 47-million-year-old specimens of an extinct turtle (Allaeochelys crassesculpta) found at the pit. These were rather small turtles, about 20 centimeters (8 inches) long.

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 ...

A 3D scan showing the anterior view of a fossilized soft-shelled turtle specimen discovered near Grasslands National Park in Saskatchewan, which has been identified as a new species by researchers.

Researchers re-examined a plant fossil found decades ago in Colombia and realized that it wasn't a plant at all: it's a fossilized baby turtle. It's a rare find, because juvenile turtles' shells ...

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 ...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Fossilized remains of a turtle believed to have lived in a swampy environment tens of millions of years ago were recovered from a desert location in southern New Mexico.