Last fall, a routine day of rockhounding on Bureau of Land Management–managed public land in southwest Wyoming turned into an ...

For years, the Coleman family's fishing trips on the Alabama Gulf Coast were routine. But in 2021, their outing near a riverbank led to an odd find: the shell of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea ...

Humongous Turtle Shell Unearthed. This shows an 8-million-year-old turtle shell that measured nearly 8 feet (2.4 meters) was ...

Everything about the discovery of a fossilized leatherback sea turtle in Alabama four years ago is fascinating. The findings of the never-before studied species were published in a study Friday, ...

This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — until a changing planet proved too much for even the largest ...

Ever consider the question of whether a turtle can truly pull its head into its shell like a cartoon representation in a ...