Kids’ summer adventures often end in finding cool rocks. But 11-year-old Touren Pope found a prehistoric turtle. Back in July ...

Eleven-year-old Touren Pope was hunting for rocks in southwest Wyoming when he came across the fossil of a soft-shelled ...

Last year, the 11-year-old was hunting for rocks with his grandparents, Patti and Tom Patterson, on the Bureau of Land ...

The post This Giant Ancient Turtle Dwarfs Its Modern Ancestors appeared first on A-Z Animals. Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The leatherback sea turtle offers a rare look into ...

Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an ...

The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks is teaming up with Missouri State University researchers to launch alligator snapping turtles into state waters in autumn of this year. Juvenile alligator ...

Scientists say they may have discovered evidence of a prehistoric turtle stampede on a remote Italian cliff. The story begins in 2019, when rock climbers, venturing into a dangerous, off-limits ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will add new protections for a rare turtle whose ridged shell looks like a topographic map, with the goal of keeping it from going extinct. The federal agency has ...

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before modern turtles evolved into the familiar forms we recognize today, some ...