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, surpassing any living turtle species by far. The first Archelon fossil ...

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 ...