A new fossil find sheds light on ancient inhabitants ... This species is identified as “one of the world’s largest freshwater turtles.” During the late Pleistocene, the armored reptile ...

This magnificent creature, now long extinct, was the largest turtle ever known. It measured 4.6 m (15 ft) from head to tail, ...

Relatively few fossils of early turtles have been found, leaving it a mystery how the creature developed its unique features, and even which ancestors they evolved from. A research published in ...

BANDO, Ibaraki Prefecture—A fossilized bone piece long hailed as coming from a pterosaur flying reptile is actually from a “suppon” softshell turtle, according to a re-examination that ...