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The origin of turtles has always been a bit of a puzzle for scientists who study the evolution of animals. To this day, where ...

Learn how a 260-million-year-old Permian reptile, once thought to explain turtle evolution, turned out to belong to a different lineage, reshaping the story of turtle origins in the Triassic Period.

At first, the day looks like a classic fossil beach hunt: rough waves, shell layers, cliff falls, and the hope of finding a shark tooth. Then a small fragment changes everything. They identify it as ...

In South Africa, fossil turtles left trails near ancient shores. The Monte Cònero marks look like they came from swimmers, not walkers. That points strongly to sea turtles. The numbers add weight. On ...

JACKSONVILLE — A 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle fossil, discovered by an Alabama family on a fishing trip, has provided groundbreaking insights thanks to research conducted in part by Dr.

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 ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A fishing trip in south Alabama led to one of the most remarkable fossil finds in the world. The Coleman family was out fishing north of Mobile in 2021 when they spotted ...

“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 ...