FUKUI--Japan’s oldest fossils of a pitted-shelled turtle species are now on display, providing clues on how prehistoric creatures expanded their range 130 million years ago. The two shell ...

Paleontologists have uncovered fossils of a giant turtle species with some striking features, such as its shape, that lived tens of millions of years ago in South America. The research team found ...

A number of primitive turtles known from the fossil record already have complete shells. The oldest known turtle prior to this find, an animal called Odontochelys, had a fully-formed shell over ...

For example, paleontologists discovered a sea turtle fossil in Colombia dating back at least 120 million years ago to the Cretaceous; meanwhile Odontochelys semitestacea, a fossil discovered in ...

The fossil was found in 2002 in a 72-million-year-old stratum from the late Cretaceous ... took apart a suppon turtle during a hot pot dinner at his home after finishing a scientific paper.

The Stupendemys geographicus was roughly the size of a car Fossils of a turtle the size of a car have been unearthed in what is now northern South America. The turtle - Stupendemys geographicus ...

This ancestor of the modern turtle, Eunotosaurus, is thought to be around 260 million years old. It had significant differences to a recently found fossil relative. Eunotosaurus was discovered ...