The discovery of ancient fossils often unlocks chapters of history that have long been sealed in the earth’s crust. Among these riveting finds, the uncovering of the oldest turtle fossil in the ...

A Pancaked Turtle Fossil’s 150-Million-Year-Old Tale. A beautifully preserved shelled reptile recovered from a Bavarian limestone deposit helps tell the story of how turtles first took to the seas.

The DNA comes from the remains of a turtle shell first uncovered in 2015 in the Chagres Formation on Panama’s Caribbean coast. It represents the oldest known fossil evidence of Lepidochelys turtles.

Beautifully Complete 150-Million-Year-Old Turtle Fossil Discovered In Germany It’s the first fossil of this Jurassic sea turtle to have a complete skull, shell, and four limbs.

January 17, 2023 Pennsylvania professor discovers 5 million-year-old fossil of previously unknown, extinct turtle This is the second new ancient species identified by scientist Steven Jasinski ...

Researchers excavating a fossilized turtle shell from Panama’s Caribbean coast. Photo: Carlos De Gracia, University of Vienna and STRI A team of paleontologists studying the fossilized shell of ...

The fossil first described in 2003 was originally interpreted to be a plant. Researchers have now discovered that it is the inside of the shell of a baby turtle.

Two fossilized specimens, each less than 2.5 inches in length, were originally thought to be plants. Now, scientists say they are preserved hatchling turtles. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology ...

According to the study, the fossils represent a now-extinct turtle species known as Puentemys mushaisaensis, which lived in the northernmost part of South America around 57 million years ago.

A 525 million-year-old fossilized worm unearthed in China has what is likely the ... Fossilized brain of 525 million-year-old deep sea worm likely the oldest ever discovered. Titanic 12-foot turtle.

Using the Turtle Compaction Index at Corral Bluffs, Dr. Petermann said, they found that many of the turtles had been buried in the ooze at the bottom of waterway, and over time under beds of silt ...