A dangerous turtle capable of biting through bones has been found in a tarn in Cumbria. An alligator snapping turtle, which is usually found in swamps and freshwater rivers in Florida, Texas and other ...

“As soon as those two halves came together, like puzzle pieces, you knew it,” said Ted Daeschler, PhD, associate curator of vertebrate zoology and vice president for collections at the Academy of ...

An ancient turtle's fossils, dating from roughly 45 million years ago, were recently discovered in Antarctica. The bones, only two fragments from a turtle's carapace, or shell, were unearthed in the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers have traced the 3,000-year-old “food footprints” of endangered green sea turtles around the Mediterranean. By comparing turtle bone ...

MANCHESTER, England and GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Thousands of years ago, the inhabitants of modern-day Florida and the Caribbean feasted on sea turtles, leaving behind bones that tell tales of ancient ...

Turtle shells evolved over the course of 300 million years, but self-defense wasn't the initial driver, researchers think.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, a shell-less turtle developed a malady in its bones. Now, 240 million years later, the Triassic period turtle is finally receiving a diagnosis: bone cancer. This is ...

For approximately 3,000 years, generations of green sea turtles have returned to the same seagrass meadows to eat. This was discovered by Willemien de Kock, a historical ecologist at the University of ...

(CN) — Green sea turtles, long known as creatures of habit, may have been feasting on the same North African seagrass beds for millennia, according to research published in the Proceedings of the ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The bones found in a late 1980s car submerged in a West Palm Beach waterway on Friday were from a turtle and fish, police said Wednesday. Spokesman Mike Jachles told WPTV in an ...

Thousands of years ago, the inhabitants of modern-day Florida and the Caribbean feasted on sea turtles, leaving behind bones that tell tales of ancient diets and the ocean's past. An international ...