Discover what’s inside a turtle shell, living bone fused to spine and ribs, packed with organs, muscles, and nerves that ...

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

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

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 the ...

Micro-scratches within the grooves of the stone turtle shell show that it was carved by humans using sharp flint tools, experts say - Clara Amit/Israel Antiquities Authority The “cosmic turtle”, which ...